Matola is the largest suburb of the Mozambique capital, Maputo , adjacent to its westernmost side. It is the nation's most populated city. Matola is the capital of Maputo Province and has had its own elected municipal government since 1998. It has a port and also the biggest industrial area in Mozambique. The population of Matola was, according to the 2007 census, 671,556 inhabitants, having increased to a 2017 census population of 1,032,197.
6-470: Matola, which is also a common family name, comes from Matsolo a Ronga kingdom that existed in this region when the colonists arrived. Matola is an industrial centre with an important port for minerals ( chromium and iron ) and other exports from Eswatini and South Africa . It has petroleum refineries (presently inactive) and diverse industries, which manufacture products like soap , cement , and agricultural materials. The most important of these
12-658: Is a Bantu language of the Tswa–Ronga branch spoken just south of Maputo in Mozambique . It extends a little into South Africa . It has about 650,000 speakers in Mozambique and a further 90,000 in South Africa, with dialects including Konde, Putru and Kalanga. The Swiss philologist Henri-Alexandre Junod seems to have been the first linguist to have studied it, in the late 19th century. Glottal Its alphabet
18-643: Is an aluminium smelter, installed in 2002, that more than doubled Mozambique's GDP . In November 2014, South Korean car company Hyundai Motor Company opened a plant in Matola (Somyoung Motors), which manufactures the Hyundai i10 and Hyundai Accent . Matola is served by a station on the southern network of Mozambique Ports and Railways , connecting the Goba railway and the Pretoria-Maputo railway . Coal
24-454: Is exported from here. Matola is also the name of a small river (some 30 km long), that makes the northern border of the Matola municipality, and flows into Maputo Bay . 25°58′S 32°28′E / 25.967°S 32.467°E / -25.967; 32.467 This Mozambique location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Ronga Ronga ( XiRonga ; sometimes ShiRonga or GiRonga )
30-409: Is similar to that of Tsonga as provided by Methodist missionaries and Portuguese settlers. Ronga is grammatically so close to Tsonga in many ways that census officials have often considered it a dialect; its noun class system is very similar and its verbal forms are almost identical. Its most immediately noticeable difference is a much greater influence from Portuguese, due to being centred near
36-715: The capital Maputo (formerly Lourenço Marques). The first book to be published in Ronga was the Gospel of John translated mainly by Henri Berthoud from the Swiss Romande Mission [ de ] . It was published by the British and Foreign Bible Society in 1896. Further translation was done by Pierre Loze from Mission Romande (Swiss Romande Mission) and H.L. Bishop (Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society), assisted by Jeremia Caetano and Efraim Hely. The New Testament
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