 Rambai muchinyora ndima iyi - Hondo yechipiri yeBoer yakatanga musi wa11 Gumiguru 1899 apo maBoer akatora chitima cheNatal pamuganhu weOrange Free State. Mauto evaBoer akakurumidza kutora Newcastle. Guta racho rakabva rava kunzi Viljoensdorp. Muhondo yeTalana Hill musi wa20 Gumiguru 1899, kunze kweDundee, mauto eBritish aitungamirirwa naWilliam Penn Symons akakunda makoramu emaBoer, asi akakundikana kudzivirira kutiza kwavo nekuda kwekushandisa kwenhema kwemireza yeRed Cross nemaBoers. VaBritain vakadzokera kuLadysmith. Mauto evaBoer akapfuurira kuLadysmith ndokukomba taundi racho, achigura kutaurirana kwaro kubva kumaodzanyemba. Kukombwa kweLadysmith kwakapfuurira kutozosvikira 28 February 1900, apo guta racho rakasunungurwanemauto aitungamirirwa naRedvers Buller. Mukati mevhiki nhanhatu dzakatangira betsero yacho, kufa 200 kwakanga kwaitika nemhaka yechirwere bedzi, uye pamwe chete vanhu vanosvika 8.424 vakashumwa kuva vakapfuura nomuzvipatara. Kununurwa kweLadysmith nokukurumidza kwakatungamirira kukubviswa kweNatal nemauto eBoer, ayo akafamba achienda kuchamhembe. 