Vryheid Attractions

Vryheid is the largest town on the Northern Natal Battlefields Route, which takes in various battlefields, the scene of fighting between British forces and Zulus and between British forces and the Boers.

Vryheid was briefly the capital of the New Republic proclaimed by the Boers in 1884, which survived only until 1887, when it was incorporated in the Transvaal. It has, however, preserved a number of historic buildings from the period of independence, including the Volksraad and the Lucas Meyer House, once the home of the State President's widow and now a museum