Melmoth, KwaZulu-Natal
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Melmoth is a small town situated in KwaZulu-Natal
, South Africa
. The town was established in the Mthonjaneni district after the annexation of Zululand
by the United Kingdom
in 1887 and was named after Sir Melmoth Osborn. Large wattle
plantations were set up and a wattle bark factory was established in 1926.The district is also filled with animals and the most extrodinary bird types.
Other notable sites are the local Total garage Steers (run by Khalida and Yusuf Gora as well as Irshad Haniff) which serve travellers on the main Piet Retief Road as the route is extremely busy during holiday periods.
Vehicle registrations in Melmoth start NO - N
for Natal, O
for Osborn.
KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal is a province of South Africa. Prior to 1994, the territory now known as KwaZulu-Natal was made up of the province of Natal and the homeland of KwaZulu....
, South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
. The town was established in the Mthonjaneni district after the annexation of Zululand
Zulu Kingdom
The Zulu Kingdom, sometimes referred to as the Zulu Empire or, rather imprecisely, Zululand, was a monarchy in Southern Africa that extended along the coast of the Indian Ocean from the Tugela River in the south to Pongola River in the north....
by the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
in 1887 and was named after Sir Melmoth Osborn. Large wattle
Acacia
Acacia is a genus of shrubs and trees belonging to the subfamily Mimosoideae of the family Fabaceae, first described in Africa by the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus in 1773. Many non-Australian species tend to be thorny, whereas the majority of Australian acacias are not...
plantations were set up and a wattle bark factory was established in 1926.The district is also filled with animals and the most extrodinary bird types.
Other notable sites are the local Total garage Steers (run by Khalida and Yusuf Gora as well as Irshad Haniff) which serve travellers on the main Piet Retief Road as the route is extremely busy during holiday periods.
Vehicle registrations in Melmoth start NO - N
N
N is the fourteenth letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet.- History of the forms :One of the most common hieroglyphs, snake, was used in Egyptian writing to stand for a sound like English ⟨J⟩, because the Egyptian word for "snake" was djet...
for Natal, O
O
O is the fifteenth letter and a vowel in the basic modern Latin alphabet.The letter was derived from the Semitic `Ayin , which represented a consonant, probably , the sound represented by the Arabic letter ع called `Ayn. This Semitic letter in its original form seems to have been inspired by a...
for Osborn.