Frere is a town in Inkosi Langalibalele Local Municipality in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. The city is named for Sir Henry Bartle Frere, Governor of Cape Colony from 1877 to 1880. The city was for a time the headquarters of Sir Redvers Buller during the Second Boer War. The town is 25 km east of Winterton.

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