2-555: Ixopo , also known as Stuartstown , is a town situated on a tributary of the uMkhomazi River along the R56 highway in the midlands of KwaZulu-Natal , South Africa . The town was laid out in 1878 and named after M Stuart, Resident Magistrate of the surrounding district, who was killed at the Battle of Ingogo in 1881. Its name is derived from the Zulu onomatopoeic word, eXobo , describing
4-453: The sound made as cattle squelch through mud. The 'x', in Zulu, is pronounced as a lateral click . The town is most famously described by Alan Paton in the opening lines of Cry, The Beloved Country : "There is a lovely road which runs from Ixopo into the hills. These hills are grass covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it." Until the mid-1980s, Ixopo was served by
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