Gluckstad means ‘city of luck’ in German. The town was founded by a small group of German farmers that originally established a German community in the valley of the Black Umfolozi, from which they were driven by malaria. The town is probably named after a town of the same name, on the banks of the Elbe River in Germany.
Named after David Louw, a pioneer in the area. The economy is based on cattle and maize. Louwsburg...
This is one of the districts of northern kwaZulu-Natal that was once part of the Zuid...
This was once the favourite holiday resort of John Dunn, who was the only white man that was ever...
A new magisterial office was established here in 1887. The locals named it kwaNongoma ('place of...
The town originated during the depression of the 1930's and one of the schemes, to circumvent the...
Melmoth was established as a magisterial office in the time of the British annexation of Zululand...
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