Umbumbulu
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- Instance of
- South African township
- Country
- South Africa
- Located in
- eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality
- Area
- 0.43
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Image
- Village center (Umbumbulu) (1269144837).jpg
- Dialing code
- 031
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- postal code
- 4105
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Umbumbulu is a town in the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.
The township lies near the junction of the M30 (to Umlazi) and R603 (to Kingsburgh and Umlaas Road) about 45 km south-west of Durban and 19 km from the Indian Ocean. Derived from Zulu, the name is said to mean place of the round knoll. Umbumbulu is a rural area, bordered by Madundube on the north-east, and the farming community of Mid-Illovo on the south. In the 1970s and 1980s it was a scene of a local conflict, which saw hundreds murdered, and thousands dislocated. It has since become a picture of serene rural living.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Umbumbulu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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