The Harry Gwala District Municipality ( Zulu : UMasipala wesiFunda sase Harry Gwala ; Xhosa : uMasipala weSithili sase Harry Gwala ), formerly the Sisonke District Municipality , is one of the 11 districts of the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa . The seat is Ixopo . The majority of its 298,392 inhabitants spoke isiZulu as of 2011. The district code is DC43. The district's name was changed in November 2015 in honor of African National Congress leader Harry Gwala .
2-636: 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
4-579: 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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