2-663: Umzimkhulu is a town in Harry Gwala District Municipality in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa . The town lies 243 km north-east of Mthatha , 18 km south-west of Ixopo , and 108 km south south-west of Pietermaritzburg , the provincial capital. It developed from a trading-post and was laid out in 1884. Takes its name from the Mzimkulu River on which it is situated; Zulu and Xhosa for 'big place', 'large home' of
4-599: The waters. Until 1 March 2006, the town was part of an exclave of the Eastern Cape , before being transferred to KwaZulu-Natal as part of the Twelfth Amendment of the Constitution of South Africa . During the KwaZulu-Natal riots of July, 2021, more than 50 people died in a furniture store in the town that was set alight while looters were robbing it. This Eastern Cape location article
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