Himeville
Sign in to saveHimeville is a small village/town situated in the foothills of the Southern Drakensberg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, approx 130 km from Pietermaritzburg on the route to the Sani Pass and the uKhahlamba Drakensberg Park (UNESCO World Heritage Site). Himeville is the closest town to the Sani Pass which links the town with Mokhotlong in Lesotho.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Country
- South Africa
- Located in
- Kwa Sani Local Municipality
- Capital of
- Kwa Sani Local Municipality
- Image
- ZA-KZ-drakensb-sanipass-hotel.jpg
- Dialing code
- 033
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- inception
- 1905-01-01
- postal code
- 3256
- Commons category
- Himeville
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Himeville Museum
- Himeville Old Residency
- Himeville Nature Reserve
- References
- External links
Himeville is a small village/town situated in the foothills of the Southern Drakensberg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, approx 130 km from Pietermaritzburg on the route to the Sani Pass and the uKhahlamba Drakensberg Park (UNESCO World Heritage Site). Himeville is the closest town to the Sani Pass which links the town with Mokhotlong in Lesotho.
Himeville was named in 1902 after the then Prime Minister of Natal, Sir Albert Henry Hime, a road engineer elected as Prime Minister of Natal in 1889. The town was first established as a police outpost and a branch of the Border Mounted Rifles in 1890 following a spate of gun-running and cattle rustling in the area.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Himeville” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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