Buntingville, Eastern Cape

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Buntingville  Buntingville shown within Eastern Cape
Coordinates: 31°38′20″S 28°52′08″E / 31.639°S 28.869°ECoordinates: 31°38′20″S 28°52′08″E / 31.639°S 28.869°E
Country	South Africa
Province	Eastern Cape
District	OR Tambo
Municipality	Nyandeni
Government
• Councillor	Mbumbulwana
Area[1]
• Total	3.44 km^2 (1.33 sq mi)
Population (2011)[1]
• Total	1,090
• Density	320/km^2 (820/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)[1]
• Black African	99.8%
• Coloured	0.1%
• Other	0.1%
First languages (2011)[1]
• Xhosa	98.3%
• Other	1.7%
PO box	5115

Buntingville is a Methodist mission station 15 km south-east of Mthatha. Originally established by the Reverend W B Boyce in 1830 as Old Bunting near the village of the Pondo chief Faku at the headwaters of the Umngazana River, it was transferred about 1865. Named after Dr Jabez Bunting (1779-1858), the English Wesleyan church leader.^[2]

References

1. "Main Place Buntingville". Census 2011.
2. Raper, Peter E. (1987). Dictionary of Southern African Place Names. Internet Archive. p. 99. Retrieved 28 August 2013.