Mahamba (Swaziland)

Mahamba is a town in the Shiselweni district of southern Swaziland.

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]

Coordinates: 27°06′S 31°05′E / 27.1°S 31.083°E / -27.1; 31.083

References

1. ^ "EEASA 2008 Conference, Swaziland - General Information". http://www.environment.gov.sz/eeasa/information.asp. Retrieved 2010-10-19. 
2. ^ Fahlbusch, Erwin (2008). The encyclopedia of Christianity. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. pp. 241. ISBN 9780802824172. 
3. ^ Limb, Peter (2010). Grappling with the Beast: Indigenous Southern African Responses to Colonialism, 1840-1930. pp. 306. ISBN 9789004178779. 
4. ^ Bonner, Philip (2002). Kings, Commoners and Concessionaires: The Evolution and Dissolution of the Nineteenth-Century Swazi State. Cambridge University Press. pp. 56. ISBN 9780521523004.