Amahlongwa Mission or simply known as Amahlongwa and oftely informally abbreviated as A.M.H is a small township on the

south coast South Coast is a name often given to coastal areas to the south of a geographical region or major metropolitan area. Geographical Australia *South Coast (New South Wales), the coast of New South Wales, Australia, south of Sydney * South Coast (Q ...

region of

KwaZulu-Natal KwaZulu-Natal (, also referred to as KZN and known as "the garden province") is a province of South Africa that was created in 1994 when the Zulu bantustan of KwaZulu ("Place of the Zulu" in Zulu) and Natal Province were merged. It is locate ...

Demography

The population of the township in 2011 was 7,455 people with 1,591 households. It also has an area of 12.10 kilometer squared, with an elevation of 554m above sea level.

Religion

Churches in the area include : * Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa *

Assemblies of God The Assemblies of God (AG), officially the World Assemblies of God Fellowship, is a group of over 144 autonomous self-governing national groupings of churches that together form the world's largest Pentecostal denomination."Assemblies of God". ...

* Roman Catholic Church * Zion Christian Church

Geography

Location

It is under the

Umdoni Local Municipality uMdoni Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Ugu District of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. Umdoni is an isiZulu name for the indigenous tree, Mdoni (''Syzgium gerrardi''). Main places The 2001 census divided the municipality in ...

, with neighboring townships such as

Amandawe Amandawe () also known as Amandawe Mission, or often informally abbreviated as AMA is a small township located at KwaZulu-Natal South Coast region of South Africa, the area is mostly populated with Black Africans. History Amandawe was a sugarc ...

Dududu Dududu is a small rural area in the South Coast of the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. It is also referred to as Zembeni by locals. The area is primarily used for agriculture, i.e. the sugarcane plantations by the Illovo Sugar company. ...

, KwaCele, Clausthal.

Wildlife

The township has a large number of animals such as

Black mamba The black mamba (''Dendroaspis polylepis'') is a species of highly venomous snake belonging to the family Elapidae. It is native to parts of sub-Saharan Africa. First formally described by Albert Günther in 1864, it is the second-longest ...

s, brown house snake,

Spotted bush snake ''Philothamnus semivariegatus'', commonly known as the spotted bush snake is a species of non-venomous Colubridae, colubrid snake, Endemism, endemic to Africa. Geographic range ''P. semivariegatus'' is distributed from South Africa northward to ...

, etc.

Notable people

* Sandile Ngidi - A poet, journalisthttps://https-www-google-com/url?q=https://www.aljazeera.com/author/sandile_ngidi_200402071817926&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwjAwryA4tD8AhXQjqQKHd6tAJc4ChAWegQICRAC&usg=AOvVaw06dM-ZGZ10Spv1fM7pPirH

References

{{KwaZuluNatal-geo-stub Populated places in the Umdoni Local Municipality