Kwambonambi

Place in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

28°36′00″S 32°05′00″E / 28.6°S 32.083333°E / -28.6; 32.083333CountrySouth AfricaProvinceKwaZulu-NatalDistrictKing CetshwayoMunicipalityuMfoloziArea

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• Total3.27 km² (1.26 sq mi)Population

(2011)^[1]

• Total2,872 • Density880/km² (2,300/sq mi)Racial makeup (2011)

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• Black African82.6% • Coloured0.6% • Indian/Asian0.8% • White15.6% • Other0.4%First languages (2011)

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• Zulu77.1% • English11.2% • Afrikaans8.7% • Other2.9%Time zoneUTC+2 (SAST)PO box

3915

Area code035

Kwambonambi is a town in King Cetshwayo District Municipality in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.

Village, centre of sugar and timber areas, 29 km north-east of Empangeni, 30 km south-west of Mtubatuba and 30 km north of Richards Bay. Zulu, ‘place of the Mbonambi’, a tribe which lived there, the name means ‘ill-omen’.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Sub Place Kwambonambi". Census 2011.
^ "Dictionary of Southern African Place Names (Public Domain)". Human Science Research Council. p. 267.