Hlobane is a town in Zululand District Municipality in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.

Hlobane
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Coordinates: 27.710°S 30.999°E / -27.710; 30.999
Country	South Africa
Province	KwaZulu-Natal
District	Zululand
Municipality	Abaqulusi
Area [1]
• Total	17.08 km2 (6.59 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[1]
• Total	7,628
• Density	450/km2 (1,200/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) [1]
• Black African	99.6%
• White	0.2%
• Other	0.1%
First languages (2011) [1]
• Zulu	96.2%
• Other	3.8%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
PO box	3145
Area code	034

Coal-mining centre 27 km east of Vryheid and 31 km south-west of Louwsburg. The locality was known as such in the 19th century and the name applied to the town in 1924. Of Zulu origin, it is said by some to mean ‘beautiful place’, and by others ‘place of dispute’.[2] It was the scene of the battle of Hlobane in the Zulu War, on 28 March 1879.

Bibliography

• Ian Knight, Ian Castle, Rorke's Drift : Zulu War, Leo Cooper, UK, 2000. ISBN 9780850526554.

References

External links

• Hlobane, Battlefields

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