Mahamba, Eswatini

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°06′S 31°05′E

References
  1. "EEASA 2008 Conference, Swaziland - General Information". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 19 October 2010.
  2. Fahlbusch, Erwin (2008). The encyclopedia of Christianity. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 241. ISBN 9780802824172.
  3. Limb, Peter (2010). Grappling with the Beast: Indigenous Southern African Responses to Colonialism, 1840-1930. p. 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.


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