Donnybrook, KwaZulu-Natal

Place in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

29°45′S 30°0′E / 29.750°S 30.000°E / -29.750; 30.000CountrySouth AfricaProvinceKwaZulu-NatalDistrictHarry GwalaMunicipalityDr Nkosazana Dlamini-ZumaArea

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• Total15.10 km² (5.83 sq mi)Population

(2011)^[1]

• Total4,683 • Density310/km² (800/sq mi)Racial makeup (2011)

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• Black African98.4% • Coloured0.3% • Indian/Asian0.3% • White0.4% • Other0.6%First languages (2011)

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• Zulu92.8% • S. Ndebele1.5% • Tswana1.4% • Sotho1.1% • Other3.2%Time zoneUTC+2 (SAST)PO box

3237

Area code039

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

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

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Main Place Donnybrook". Census 2011.
^ "Dictionary of Southern African Place Names (Public Domain)". Human Science Research Council. p. 141.