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Mpophomeni
Sign in to saveMpophomeni is a town in Umgungundlovu District Municipality in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.
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- town
- Country
- South Africa
- Located in
- uMngeni Local Municipality
- Elevation
- 1103
- Image
- Nokulunga Wall of Reconciliation.jpg
- Dialing code
- 033
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- postal code
- 3291
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- Mpophomeni
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Mpophomeni is a town in Umgungundlovu District Municipality in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.
==History== thumb|Mpophomeni wall to remember those who died during struggle In 1968 the South African government built in an open field a township called Mpophomeni to relocate the black people living in the surroundings of Howick, a picturesque little town in the Natal Midlands. Mpophomeni (which means the place of the waterfall in isiZulu) derives its name from the well known Howick waterfall.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mpophomeni” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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