Mbazwana is a town in Umhlabuyalingana Local Municipality and is part of Umkhanyakude District Municipality in the

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 ...

province of

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. Settlement and plantation some 50 km east of

Ubombo Ubombo, is a small town in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa about 17 km north-east of Mkuze Mkuze, also named Mkhuze or uMkhuze is a small town in Northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is located approximately 350 km from the ...

. Presumably takes its name from the tributary of the

Mseleni Mseleni is a small settlement in Umhlabuyalingana Maputaland, northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is situated not far away from the small town of Mbazwana. It is divided into 2 small izigodi namely KwaJobe and KwaNhlamvu, ruled under the Aut ...

. The name, of Zulu origin, is said to mean ‘small axe’, after a person called Mbazwana.

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