Umzimkulu

Umzimkhulu

Umzimkhulu

Place in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Umzimkhulu is a town in Harry Gwala District Municipality in the Eastern Capeprovince of South Africa.

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The town lies 243 km north-east of Mthatha, 18 km south-west of Ixopo, and 108 km south south-west of Pietermaritzburg, the provincial capital. It developed from a trading-post and was laid out in 1884. Takes its name from the Mzimkulu River on which it is situated; Zulu and Xhosa for 'big place', 'large home' of the waters.[2]

Until 1 March 2006, the town was part of an exclave of the Eastern Cape, before being transferred to KwaZulu-Natal as part of the Twelfth Amendment of the Constitution of South Africa.

During the KwaZulu-Natal riots of July, 2021, more than 50 people died in a furniture store in the town that was set alight while looters were robbing it.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    "Main Place Umzimkhulu". Census 2011.
  2. [2]
    "Dictionary of Southern African Place Names (Public Domain)". Human Science Research Council. p. 445.
  3. [3]
    "Babalelwa ku-50 abangqongqe nesitolo".


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