Vryheid
Sign in to saveVryheid (/Abaqulusi) is a coal mining and cattle ranching town in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Vryheid is the Afrikaans word for "freedom", while its original name of Abaqulusi reflects the abaQulusi clan based in the local area.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Vryheid
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Dutch Reformed Church, Vryheid, South Africa.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Dutch Reformed Church on Church Square.
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- South Africa KwaZulu-Natal#South Africa
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- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- South Africa
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- KwaZulu-Natal
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Zululand
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- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Abaqulusi
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- Main Place
- Settlement.established_title
- Established
- Settlement.established_date
- 1884
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- Councillor
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 48.71
- Settlement.population_total
- 47365
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Vryheid (/Abaqulusi) is a coal mining and cattle ranching town in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Vryheid is the Afrikaans word for "freedom", while its original name of Abaqulusi reflects the abaQulusi clan based in the local area.
==History== thumb|upright|View of Church Street in Vryheid's Commercial District. After Boer farmers, who lived in the Vryheid area, had helped King Dinuzulu defeat his rival chief Zibhebhu for succession of the Zulu throne, land that they occupied was given to them by cession from the Zulu king along the banks of the Mfolozi River. On August 5, 1884, the Boers formed the Nieuwe Republiek (New Republic) with Vryheid as its capital and its sovereignty was recognized by Germany and Portugal colonizers. It was later incorporated into the South African Republic, but at the end of the Second Boer War the town and its surrounding area was absorbed into the Natal colony by the British. Vryheid is located along the Transnet Coalline.