Ladysmith

Ladysmith, now officially uMnambithi since 2024, sits on the Klip River in the mountain terrain of KwaZulu-Natal and carries one of South Africa's more dramatic Boer War histories: Boer forces besieged the town from November 1899 until February 1900, and both Winston Churchill and Mahatma Gandhi were present — Churchill as a war correspondent, Gandhi as a stretcher-bearer. Named after the Spanish wife of a 19th-century Cape Colony governor, the town today is a regional industrial and administrative centre between Durban and Johannesburg.

• Population143,446
• Nearest water from center 0.3 km0.2 mi
• Nearest mountain from center 1.6 km1.0 mi