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Qumbu
Sign in to savethumb|Photograph of the town of Qumbu in the background, with a local child in the foreground. Qumbu is a town in OR Tambo District Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.
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The entry is geolocated on the map in ZA, across 2 mapped points.
It is catalogued under topics including 1876 establishments in the Cape Colony, Populated places established in 1876 and Populated places in the Mhlontlo Local Municipality.
Its subject is documented across 8 Wikipedia language editions.
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thumb|Photograph of the town of Qumbu in the background, with a local child in the foreground. Qumbu is a town in OR Tambo District Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.
The town is 61 km north of Mthatha and was founded in 1876. Lower Kroza & Mvumelwana are the biggest rural areas in Qumbu 5180. The name is of isiXhosa origin, derived from amazimba aqumbu, ‘the corn has budded’, or ‘the corn is swollen’, referring to a tribal war which occurred at that time of the year. It is also known by its tribal fights during the 19th century, where King Mhlontlo of the AmaMpondomise was accused of killing the then Missioner Mr Hamilton Hope who helps in the foundation of the town Magistrate court. Mhlontlo was later arrested in King Williams Town.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Qumbu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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