Ncome/Blood River Museum and Monument, Natal
The Battle of Blood River in 1836, in which a small group of Boers with guns massacred at a large number of Zulu troops with assegais and shields, has been mythologised as one of the defining triumphal moments in Afrikaner history and nationalist consciousness. Its memorial was a huge almost life-size circle of ox-wagon carts drawn up in an defensive lager. Post-1994 and at the same commemorative location, the Ncome Museum was instituted to tell the story from a different side. It also provides a reminder of the Zulu presence in the symbolic shields on its walls.
