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Maphumulo
Sign in to saveMaphumulo is a town in Ilembe District Municipality in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.
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- South Africa
- Located in
- Maphumulo Local Municipality
- Elevation
- 473
- Capital of
- Maphumulo Local Municipality
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Maphumulo is a town in Ilembe District Municipality in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.
Settlement some 42 km north-west of Stanger and 38 km south-east of Kranskop. Named after the Mapumulo Zulu people who came to live here after being driven out by Shaka; the name is said to mean ‘heaven of rest’. This village had a trading store (owned by J.O. Christie ) a police station, a magistrate's court, and a post office - all during the 1940s and 1950s.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Maphumulo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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