Donnybrook, KwaZulu-Natal

Donnybrook is a settlement in Harry Gwala District Municipality in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.

Donnybrook
A building in Donnybrook
Donnybrook
Donnybrook
Coordinates: 29°45′S 30°0′E
CountrySouth Africa
ProvinceKwaZulu-Natal
DistrictHarry Gwala
MunicipalityDr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma
Area
  Total15.10 km2 (5.83 sq mi)
Population
 (2011)[1]
  Total4,683
  Density310/km2 (800/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
  Black African98.4%
  Coloured0.3%
  Indian/Asian0.3%
  White0.4%
  Other0.6%
First languages (2011)
  Zulu92.8%
  S. Ndebele1.5%
  Tswana1.4%
  Sotho1.1%
  Other3.2%
Time zoneUTC+2 (SAST)
PO box
3237
Area code039

Village some 80 km southwest of Pietermaritzburg. It was named after Donnybrook, a suburb of Dublin, by Robert Comrie, the owner of the farm on which it was laid out.[2]

Until the mid-1980s, it was the northern terminus of the Umzinto – Donnybrook narrow gauge railway.

References

  1. "Main Place Donnybrook". Census 2011.
  2. "Dictionary of Southern African Place Names (Public Domain)". Human Science Research Council. p. 141.
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