Umbumbulu is a town in the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.
Umbumbulu | |
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![]() Village center | |
Coordinates: 29°59′02″S 30°42′07″E / 29.984°S 30.702°E | |
Country | South Africa |
Province | KwaZulu-Natal |
Municipality | eThekwini |
Area | |
• Total | 23.2 km2 (9.0 sq mi) |
Population (2011)[1] | |
• Total | 2,684 |
• Density | 120/km2 (300/sq mi) |
Racial makeup (2011) | |
• Black African | 98.7% |
• Coloured | 0.07% |
• Indian/Asian | 0.1% |
• White | 0.5% |
• Other | 0.5% |
First languages (2011) | |
• Zulu | 93.4% |
• English | 1.6% |
• Other | 5% |
Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |
PO box | 4105 |
Area code | 031 |
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.[2] 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.
The main river running through Umbumbulu is the Ntinyane River, and it is infamous as the site where a clergyman was swept away by the floods in the 1980s, his body never retrieved to this day.
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