Mahamba, Eswatini
Mahamba is a town in the Shiselweni district of southern Eswatini.
It has a border crossing point towards Piet Retief in South Africa.[1] It is on the MR9 road.
An early Wesleyan mission station was established here in 1844.[2] moved here, probably before 1906, and his religious heterodoxy may have fuelled local religious strife.[3]
There was a skirmish here in 1846 between Ohrigstad Boers and Swazi forces under Mswati.[4]
Coordinates: 27°06′S 31°05′E / 27.100°S 31.083°E
References[]
- ^ "EEASA 2008 Conference, Swaziland - General Information". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2010-10-19.
- ^ Fahlbusch, Erwin (2008). The encyclopedia of Christianity. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 241. ISBN 9780802824172.
- ^ Limb, Peter (2010). Grappling with the Beast: Indigenous Southern African Responses to Colonialism, 1840-1930. p. 306. ISBN 9789004178779.
- ^ Bonner, Philip (2002). Kings, Commoners and Concessionaires: The Evolution and Dissolution of the Nineteenth-Century Swazi State. Cambridge University Press. pp. 56. ISBN 9780521523004.
Categories:
- Populated places in Shiselweni Region
- Eswatini–South Africa border crossings
- Eswatini geography stubs