Siyabuswa is a town (also informally defined as a

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) in the countryside of the

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n province of

Mpumalanga Mpumalanga () is a province of South Africa. The name means "East", or literally "The Place Where the Sun Rises" in the Swazi, Xhosa, Ndebele and Zulu languages. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, bordering Eswatini and Mozambique. It ...

(a region formerly called Eastern Transvaal). During the

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, Siyabuswa was the

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of the

KwaNdebele KwaNdebele was a bantustan in South Africa, intended by the apartheid government as a semi-independent homeland for the Ndebele people. The homeland was created when the South African government purchased nineteen white-owned farms and install ...

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. It served as a capital from 1981 to 1986 when

KwaMhlanga KwaMhlanga is a fast growing town in the North Western corner of Mpumalanga province in South Africa. It is the spiritual home of the Ndebele tribe that settled here in the early 18th century. Kwamhlanga now consists of Kwamhlanga, Mandela, Phol ...

replaced it. Most of its

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(population in 2011: 36 882) are members of the

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. Currently Siyabuswa is home to several ethnic groups, namely the

, Pedi and

Sotho people The Sotho () people, also known as the Basuto or Basotho (), are a Bantu nation native to southern Africa. They split into different ethnic groups over time, due to regional conflicts and colonialism, which resulted in the modern Basotho, who ...

Transport

The town is about 20 kilometers southwest of the

Marble Hall Marble Hall is a town in the south of the Limpopo province of South Africa. It was formerly in Mpumalanga province. Marble Hall is a village 26 km north-west of Groblersdal and 96 km south-south-east of Mokopane on the N11 National R ...

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. The R573 regional route (also known as the Moloto road) that links Pretoria with the N11 national road at Marble Hall, passes through Siyabuswa.

References

Populated places in the Dr JS Moroka Local Municipality {{Mpumalanga-geo-stub

Transport

See also

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