Groutville is a town in
Ilembe District Municipality in the
KwaZulu-Natal
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province of
South Africa
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. Home of the late ANC leader, Chief
Albert Luthuli, Home to the late RT Rev j. Mdelwa Hlongwane founder to The Bantu Methodist Church.
Mission station several km south-west of
Stanger. Established in 1844 by the Reverend
Aldin Grout
Aldin Grout (September 2, 1803 - February 12, 1894) was an American missionary known for his missionary activities in Zululand. He married Hannah Davis in November 1834 and traveled to the Cape Colony of the American Board of Commissioners for Fo ...
(1803–1894) of the
American Missionary Society and named after him. Formerly it was known as Umvoti.
References
Populated places in the KwaDukuza Local Municipality
1844 establishments in the Colony of Natal
Populated places established in 1844
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