page_title: Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Windsor Dam outside Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal Images is scanned from photo negative. Date of photo is unknown but probably taken sometime during the late 1970s or early 1980s
context_page_description: Ladysmith is a city in the Uthukela District of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It lies 230 kilometres north-west of Durban and 365 kilometres south-east of Johannesburg. Important industries in the area include food processing, textiles, and tyre production. Motor vehicle tyres are produced by "Sumitomo Rubber South Africa" in the nearby township of Steadville.
  Ladysmith is the seat for both the Alfred Duma Local Municipality and Uthukela District Municipality.
  In 1900, the unincorporated town of Oyster Harbour on the east coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, was renamed Ladysmith by James Dunsmuir, in honour of the British lifting the siege of Ladysmith in South Africa during the Second Boer War.
context_section_description: Ladysmith is located on the banks of the Klip River ("stone river"), with the central business district and a large part of the residential areas located within the flood basin of the river. It is on the foothills of the Drakensberg mountains, about 26 km from the Van Reenen's Pass.
caption: Windsor Dam
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