SOUTH AFRICA THE BEAUTIFUL :: Panorama Waterfalls :: The Lydenburg Falls (south-west of Lydenburg)- is one of Mpumalanga’s most spectacular waterfalls, and surely also one of South Africa’s highest waterfalls. The Falls consist of 3 individual waterfalls on the Dorps River. Two waterfalls drop next each other into a basin with adjacent pools, and the third then drops from there. The total drop height is 244m.