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Built and Natural Heritage Landscape

Ncome River

This is the river which separates the side from which the Zulu armies advanced, the eastern side, and the side where the Voortrekkers had established a ‘beachhead’ in the form of a laager, the western side, during Impi yase Ncome.

Intaba kaNdlela
(Ndlela’ Hillock)

The museum is located within a historical landscape directly related to the 1838 battle. To the east of the Museum is iNtaba kaNdlela (Ndlela’s mountain). Ndlela was the Chief Commander of amaZulu during the battle and Intaba ka Ndlela is where Ndlela and other Zulu army generals rested before crossing the Ncome/Blood River to the west of the museum.

Intaba ye Ntibane
(Warthog’s Hillock)

This is situated to the west of museum and it is the position from which the Zulu attack was launched. The Zulus aptly named this mountain iNtibane because of its shape which is believed to resemble the warthogs’s head and was also the habitat of the actual warthogs. The hillock is also known as Vegkop (Skirmish Hill) in Afrikaans.

Izibuko la Bafazi

Isibuko laBafazi (Women’s Drift), derives its name from its function as the safest point from which to cross the Ncome River, so safe that even much older women could cross. It was this drift that amaZulu armies used to cross to the Voortrekker side during the battle.