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Map below, and starting at the Information Bureau (1), itself a conversion from the old Carnegie Library which was build with funds donated by the Scottish-American philanthropist, take a stroll up the street to the old parliament building and jail, all buildings which were used by the fledging government of the Nieuwe Republiek between 1884 and 1888.

The present police station (5) is also a National Monument. Lucas Meijer Huis (2) over the road was where the first president of the Republic resided and is now a museum.

In 1927 an Englishman, Charles Evenden, leaving his newly adopted country of Australia to settle in Durban, started the MOTH order, a uniquely South African ex-servicemen’s league to give comfort and camaraderie to soldiers from the Anglo Boer War and the First World War. The local chapter is known as the Freedom Shellhole (4) and is well worth a visit, if not for its collection of memorabilia, then for its pub called ‘The Mirage’.

There are more than 30 churches in Vryheid and the Dutch Reformed Moederkerk (6) takes pride of place in the centre of town. The Anglican Church of St Peter (7) is a typical Sir Herbert Baker building with a lectern dedicated to Lt Col Gawne, the officer killed on Lancaster Hill / KwaMqongwana (9), just north of Vryheid, in the Anglo Boer War. The Methodist Church (8) is the oldest complete church in Vryheid.


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Vryheid, Kwazulu-Natal


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Address: Vryheid, Kwazulu-Natal
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