Botha's Hill | |
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Botha's Hill in 2010
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Botha's Hill shown within KwaZulu-Natal | |
Coordinates: 29°45′7.2″S 30°44′24″E / 29.752000°S 30.74000°ECoordinates: 29°45′7.2″S 30°44′24″E / 29.752000°S 30.74000°E | |
Country | South Africa |
Province | KwaZulu-Natal |
Municipality | eThekwini |
Government | |
• Type | Ward 8 |
• Councillor | Michael Shelembe (ANC) |
Area | |
• Total | 7.38 km2 (2.85 sq mi) |
Population (2001) | |
• Total | 1,992 |
• Density | 270/km2 (700/sq mi) |
Racial makeup (2001) | |
• Black African | 29.8% |
• Coloured | 0.5% |
• Indian/Asian | 9.5% |
• White | 60.2% |
First languages (2001) | |
• English | 67.6% |
• Zulu | 25.5% |
• Afrikaans | 4.1% |
• Xhosa | 1.5% |
Botha's Hill is a small town outside Hillcrest in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is the gateway to the Valley of a Thousand Hills. Kearsney College moved to Botha's Hill in 1939.
The village is 37km north-west of Durban, on the old main road to Pietermaritzburg before the N3 highway was built. It was named after a settler, Philip Rudolph Botha, grandfather of General Louis Botha (1862-1919), first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa.
Railway, Bothas Hill