The following guides are based in the Howick area

Specialities

  • Battlefields
  • Zulu Culture
  • Wildlife/Birding/Nature
  • National Guide – Registered to guide throughout South Africa
  • Provincial Guide – Registered to guide in KwaZulu-Natal
  • Site Guide – Registered to guide on specific sites only
  • Special Focus – Special field if interest and speciality. Not all guides offer tours to all battlefields.
Armstrong, Des

Desmond Armstrong

  • Voortrekker, Second Anglo Boer War

Based in Howick, Desmond has a strong affiliation for his Irish roots and the Irish connection with the battlefields of KZN. A tour with him brings out of the Irish blarney, poetry and tales of the men and their links with the “home country”. Over thirty years of reading about and travelling around the area has given him an extensive knowledge of the battlefields from a very different perspective.

Contact

Tel:033 330 8390 / 083 449 7709

Email:desmond@blackthorn.co.za

Friend, Sean

Sean Friend

  • First and Second Anglo Boer Wars, Anglo Zulu Wars

Sean Friend is a Specialist History Guide based in Howick. He takes tours to the 1879 Zulu War and 1899 Boer War sites, but Majuba Mountain and the battles of the Transvaal War of Independence are his current favourites. He also conducts tours to Hlobane, Kambula, Ntombe Drift and other sites in the Vryheid area, as he spent many years living in Vryheid.

He also does lectures on the South African defence Force (SADF) in the Angolan / SWA Border War.

Contact

Tel:+27 82 367 9100

Email:sean@seanfriend.co.za