Kabokweni

Kabokweni
Ngodini
Kabokweni is located in Mpumalanga
Kabokweni
Kabokweni
Kabokweni is located in South Africa
Kabokweni
Kabokweni
Coordinates: 25°20′13″S 31°08′06″E / 25.337°S 31.135°E / -25.337; 31.135
CountrySouth Africa
ProvinceMpumalanga
DistrictEhlanzeni
MunicipalityMbombela
Area
 • Total
8.24 km2 (3.18 sq mi)
Population
 (2011)[1]
 • Total
21,905
 • Density2,700/km2 (6,900/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
 • Black African98.3%
 • Coloured1.1%
 • Indian/Asian0.2%
 • White0.1%
 • Other0.4%
First languages (2011)
 • Swazi82.2%
 • English3.8%
 • Tsonga3.4%
 • Zulu2.9%
 • Other7.8%
Time zoneUTC+2 (SAST)
PO box
1245
Area code013
Houses, yards and rocky outcrops in Kabokweni
A residential area on the outskirts of Kabokweni, 2023

Kabokweni (also known as Ngodini) is a town in Ehlanzeni District Municipality in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. Kabokweni was formally established in 1967 as the first residential township in the KaNgwane Bantustan. In 1968 the Bantu Affairs Department of the Apartheid state forcibly moved over 3000 people from the town of White River to Kabokweni. [2] Today, it is a town of over 20 000 people.[1]

  1. ^ a b c d e "Main Place Kabokweni". Census 2011.
  2. ^ "South Africa - Surplus People Project Survey 1980-1981". www.datafirst.uct.ac.za. Retrieved 23 November 2022.