Mahamba, Eswatini Explained

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] Robert Grendon 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]

-27.1°N 36°W

Notes and References

  1. Web site: EEASA 2008 Conference, Swaziland - General Information . 2010-10-19 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110716163231/http://www.environment.gov.sz/eeasa/information.asp . 2011-07-16 .
  2. Book: Fahlbusch, Erwin. The encyclopedia of Christianity. 2008. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. 9780802824172. 241.
  3. Book: Limb, Peter. Grappling with the Beast: Indigenous Southern African Responses to Colonialism, 1840-1930. 2010. 9789004178779. 306.
  4. Book: Bonner, Philip. Kings, Commoners and Concessionaires: The Evolution and Dissolution of the Nineteenth-Century Swazi State. limited. 2002. Cambridge University Press. 9780521523004. 56.

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