Lamontville is a town in EThekwini in the

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province of

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. Township south of

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, on the Umlaas River and next to

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. It was laid out in 1930 and named after the Revd

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, then Mayor of Durban.

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Populated places in eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality Townships in KwaZulu-Natal {{KwaZuluNatal-geo-stub