Mahamba is a town in the Shiselweni district of southern

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. It has a border crossing point towards

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. It is on the MR9 road. An early

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mission station was established here in 1844. Robert Grendon moved here, probably before 1906, and his religious heterodoxy may have fuelled local religious strife. There was a skirmish here in 1846 between Ohrigstad Boers and Swazi forces under Mswati.

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Populated places in Shiselweni Region Eswatini–South Africa border crossings {{Swaziland-geo-stub