Previously known as the Rand Regiments Memorial, this Johannesburg landmark is located in Saxonwold, next to the Ditsong National Museum of Military History. It’s an impressive monument that is well-known to city residents, and particularly striking at night when it is floodlit. Commissioned in the aftermath of the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), proposals for the monument became emmeshed in local politics and it was only finally completed just months before an even more devastating conflict – the First World War – broke out in 1914. Originally erected to the memory of the men of the Rand Regiments who died in the war, the Memorial was rededicated in 1999 to all victims of the Second Boer War.