Nearby Attractions

The famous Magersfontein Anglo-Boer War Battlefield Museum is a few minute's drive from Langberg and we will gladly arrange tours to the battlefields, diamond diggings and other attractions in Kimberley .

KIMBERLEY
Activities and Attractions

For a description of the attractions below, visit:
www.guideto-northerncape.co.za
These subjects are also covered in more detail in the book:
‘The Nine Provinces of South Africa ’ published by The Tourism Blueprint
This book can be ordered on their website.

 

  • Africana Library
  • Alexander McGregor Memorial Museum
  • Art Gallery
  • Battlefields Route
  • Belgravia
  • Big Hole and Kimberley Mine Museum
  • Bultfontein Mine
  • Burgher Monument, The
  • Cathedral Church of St Cyprian
  • City Hall, The
  • Concentration Camp Memorial
  • De Beers Head Office
  • Clyde N Terry Militaria Museum
  • Driekops Eiland
  • Duggan Cronin Gallery
  • Dunluce
  • Dutch Reformed Church
  • Fleamarket
  • Flamingo Casino
  • Flyfishing
  • Freddie Tait Golf Museum
  • Halfway House
  • Historical Walks
  • Honoured Dead Memorial
  • Hunting
  • Kamfersdam
  • Kimberley Club
  • Kimberley Ghost Trail
  • Magersfontein Battlefield
  • Market Square
  • McGregor Museum
  • Nooitgedacht Glacial Pavements
  • Oppenheimer Memorial Gardens and Diggers Fountain
  • Pioneers of Aviation Memorial
  • Rhodes’s Statue
  • Riverton
  • Robert Sobukwe’s House
  • Rudd House
  • School of Mines
  • Seventh Day Adventist Church
  • Sister Henrietta Stockdale Statue
  • Sol Plaatje’s House
  • Square Hill Memorial
  • Spoornet Museum
  • Sport
  • Star of the West
  • Steam Locomotives
  • Synagogue
  • Vintage Tram
  • Wildebeest Kuil Rock Art Centre
  • William Humphreys Art Gallery

BATTLEFIELDS
The Anglo-Boer War was not merely another war in South Africa 's tapestry of conflict but an event that left a lasting legacy on the nation's modern history.
As with most wars, both sides predicted a quick victory but the reality was very different. MAGERSFONTEIN: After their Modder River battle, the Boers anchored a new defence line around the Magersfontein hills. On 10 December 1899 the British bombarded the hillside and, apart from only inflicting slight damage, this folly warned the Boers of an impending attack.
On 11 December 1899 at first light, the Boers opened fire from a concealed trench on the Highland Brigade and, pinned down in the open veld, the Highlanders suffered heavy casualties.

A hilltop memorial, located on the battlefields, commemorates the Scottish dead and the Royal Highlanders (Black Watch) monument, honours Major General Andy Wauchope, the Brigade's Commanding Officer who was killed during the battle.
Nearby are twin monuments to a Scandinavia detachment fighting alongside the Boers with other gravesites, memorials and information points being accessible on the battlefield. A must is the museum and lookout point on the hill with an adjacent tearoom providing refreshments. Nearby, a Boer memorial and cemetery leaves a deep impression on any visitor.
Although few accounts agree on a casualty tally, the British Official History of the war lists a total of 948 men killed, wounded or taken prisoner. Boer losses were about 87 killed, 168 wounded and 21 taken prisoner.

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