Hlobane is a town in
Zululand District Municipality
Zululand is one of the 11 district municipalities ("districts") of KwaZulu-Natal province. The seat of Zululand is Ulundi. The majority of its 803,575 people speak IsiZulu (2011 Census). The district code is DC26. It is part of a larger histori ...
in the
KwaZulu-Natal province of
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the ...
.
Coal-mining centre 27 km east of
Vryheid
Vryheid ( zu, IVryheid) is a coal mining and cattle ranching town in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Vryheid is the Afrikaans word for "freedom".
History
After Boer farmers, who lived in the Vryheid area, had helped King Dinuzulu defeat his ...
and 31 km south-west of
Louwsburg
Louwsburg is a small town in northern KwaZulu-Natal, Louwsburg was a small village named after a farmer, Louw, who donated his farm Toggevonden for establishing of the town in 1925.
Cattle, Vegetable and maize farming are the primary economic ...
. The locality was known as such in the 19th century and the name applied to the town in 1924. Of Zulu origin, it is said by some to mean ‘beautiful place’, and by others ‘place of dispute’.
It was the scene of the
battle of Hlobane
The Battle of Hlobane (28 March 1879) took place at Hlobane, near the modern town of Vryheid in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa during the Anglo-Zulu War
The Anglo-Zulu War was fought in 1879 between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdo ...
in the Zulu War, on 28 March 1879.
Bibliography
* Ian Knight, Ian Castle, ''Rorke's Drift : Zulu War'', Leo Cooper, UK, 2000. .
References
External links
* Hlobane, Battlefield
Populated places in the Abaqulusi Local Municipality
Mining communities in South Africa
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