Umbumbulu
Umbumbulu | |
|---|---|
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) | |
• 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 |
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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.
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.