eMbalenhle is a township in
Govan Mbeki Local Municipality
Govan Mbeki Local Municipality (formerly Highveld East Local Municipality) is a Local municipality (South Africa), South African local municipality situated in the Gert Sibande District Municipality, of Mpumalanga. Secunda, Mpumalanga, Secunda is t ...
in the
Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga () is a province of South Africa. The name means "East", or literally "The Place Where the Sun Rises" in the Swazi, Xhosa, Ndebele and Zulu languages. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, bordering Eswatini and Mozambique. It ...
province of South Africa.
It was established in the 1970s to serve as a black-only
township
A township is a kind of human settlement or administrative subdivision, with its meaning varying in different countries.
Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, C ...
for the neighbouring
Secunda, which was founded at the same time. Similar to Secunda, a substantial part of housing in eMbalenhle has been constructed by
Sasol
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for its workers.
eMbalenhle is 10 km away from Secunda, and either town is generally accessed from the other by means of using the
R580 road.
References
Populated places in the Govan Mbeki Local Municipality
Townships in Mpumalanga
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