Dundee - Blood River

27km/17mi northeast of Dundee a road goes off R 33 and comes in 20km/12.5mi to the Blood River Monument. It stands in a wide plain, now peaceful farming country, which was the scene of a bloody battle on December 16th 1838, when a massive army of Zulus attacked a party of 464 voortrekkers who had set up their laager here. More than 3,000 Zulus were killed in the slaughter, and their blood stained the water of the river, now called Blood River. No voortrekkers were killed.