Botha's Hill
| Botha's Hill | |
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Botha's Hill in 2010 | |
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Location within Durban  Botha's Hill | |
| Coordinates: 29°45′7.2″S 30°44′24″E / 29.752000°S 30.74000°ECoordinates: 29°45′7.2″S 30°44′24″E / 29.752000°S 30.74000°E | |
| Country | South Africa |
| Province | KwaZulu-Natal |
| Municipality | eThekwini |
| Government | |
| • Type | Ward 8 |
| • Councillor | Michael Shelembe (ANC) |
| Area[1] | |
| • Total | 7.38 km2 (2.85 sq mi) |
| Population (2001)[1] | |
| • Total | 1,992 |
| • Density | 270/km2 (700/sq mi) |
| Racial makeup (2001)[1] | |
| • Black African | 29.8% |
| • Coloured | 0.5% |
| • Indian/Asian | 9.5% |
| • White | 60.2% |
| First languages (2001)[1] | |
| • English | 67.6% |
| • Zulu | 25.5% |
| • Afrikaans | 4.1% |
| • Xhosa | 1.5% |
Botha's Hill is a small town outside Hillcrest in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is the gateway to the Valley of a Thousand Hills. Kearsney College moved to Botha's Hill in 1939.
The village is 37km north-west of Durban, on the old main road to Pietermaritzburg before the N3 highway was built. It was named after a settler, Philip Rudolph Botha, grandfather of General Louis Botha (1862-1919), first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa.[2]
Gallery
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Railway, Bothas Hill
References
- 1 2 3 4 "Main Place Botha's Hill". Census 2001.
- ↑ "Dictionary of Southern African Place Names (Public Domain)". Human Science Research Council. p. 91.
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