4-629: Mvezo is a small village on the banks of the Mbashe River , not far from Mthatha in the Eastern Cape of South Africa . The village is mainly known as being the birthplace of Nelson Mandela , whose family serves as its chiefly dynasty , and the location of the Nelson Mandela Birthplace Museum. This Eastern Cape location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Mbashe River Mbhashe River
8-583: Is one of the major rivers in the Eastern Cape Province , South Africa . It flows in a southeastern direction and has a catchment area of 6,030 km . The river drains into the Indian Ocean through an estuary located near the lighthouse at Bashee , south of Mhlanganisweni. After passing under national road N2, the Mbhashe River encounters southwest of Elliotdale and north-east of Dutywa
12-780: The more rugged terrain of the Wild Coast and suddenly enters into a 64 km long series of violent twists and turns known as the Collywobbles before continuing more sedately towards the Indian Ocean. The Mbhashe river's main tributaries are the Xuka River , Mgwali River , Dutywa River and the Mnyolo River . Presently this river is part of the Mzimvubu to Keiskamma Water Management Area . In 1554 Portuguese ship São Bento ran aground at
16-454: The mouth of the Mbhashe River. The ordeal of 322 of its survivors, who walked from there to Lourenço Marques , presently Maputo, has been recorded. Mvezo is a village on the banks of the Mbhashe River, where Nelson Mandela was born in 1918. Some of the fishes caught in its waters are Labeobarbus aeneus , Barbus pallidus , Barbus anoplus , Myxus capensis , Anguilla marmorata and Anguilla mossambica . Labeobarbus aeneus
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