Mbazwana | |
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Mbazwana shown within KwaZulu-Natal | |
Coordinates: 27°30′00″S 32°34′44″E / 27.500°S 32.579°ECoordinates: 27°30′00″S 32°34′44″E / 27.500°S 32.579°E | |
Country | South Africa |
Province | KwaZulu-Natal |
District | uMkhanyakude |
Municipality | uMhlabuyalingana |
Area | |
• Total | 10.11 km2 (3.90 sq mi) |
Population (2011) | |
• Total | 4,312 |
• Density | 430/km2 (1,100/sq mi) |
Racial makeup (2011) | |
• Black African | 98.9% |
• Coloured | 0.4% |
• Indian/Asian | 0.3% |
• White | 0.3% |
First languages (2011) | |
• Zulu | 93.8% |
• English | 1.7% |
• S. Ndebele | 1.4% |
• Other | 3.1% |
PO box | 3974 |
Area code | 035 |
Mbazwana is a town in Umkhanyakude District Municipality in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.
Settlement and plantation some 50 km east of Ubombo. Presumably takes its name from the tributary of the Mseleni. The name, of Zulu origin, is said to mean ‘small axe’, after a person called Mbazwana.