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Sibebe is a granite mountain in
Eswatini Eswatini, formally the Kingdom of Eswatini, also known by its former official names Swaziland and the Kingdom of Swaziland, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. It is bordered by South Africa on all sides except the northeast, where i ...
, located 10 km from the capital city
Mbabane Mbabane () is the most populous city in Eswatini (previously called Swaziland), and is one of the two Capital (political), capitals (along with Lobamba), serving as the Executive (government), executive capital. It has an estimated population of ...
. It is the second-largest
monolith A monolith is a geological feature consisting of a single massive stone or rock, such as some mountains. Erosion usually exposes the geological formations, which are often made of very hard and solid igneous or metamorphic rock. Some monolit ...
in the world and the largest exposed
granite Granite ( ) is a coarse-grained (phanerite, phaneritic) intrusive rock, intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly coo ...
pluton In geology, an igneous intrusion (or intrusive body or simply intrusion) is a body of intrusive igneous rock that forms by crystallization of magma slowly cooling below the surface of the Earth. Intrusions have a wide variety of forms and com ...
,Sibebe Rock
Swaziland Tourism website. Retrieved 2012-11-12.
rising 350m above the valley of the Mbuluzi River. It is also known as 'Bald Rock'.Michael Bright (ed.), "1001 Natural Wonders: You Must See Before You Die"
AFRICA: Sibebe, Swaziland
Octopus Publishing (2010), .
The Mbabane-Mbuluzi
Rotary Club Rotary International is one of the largest Service club, service organizations in the world. The self-declared mission of Rotary, as stated on its website, is to "provide service to others, promote integrity, and advance world understanding, go ...
organises an annual fund-raising walk up Sibebe Rock, called the Sibebe Survivor. Several thousand people take part each year.Bodwa Mbingo
'SB come through for Sibebe survivor'
''The Swazi Observer'', 27 July 2012. Retrieved 2012-11-12.
Sibebe also gives its name to a
lager Lager (; ) is a Type of beer, style of beer brewed and Brewing#Conditioning, conditioned at low temperature. Lagers can be Pale lager, pale, Amber lager, amber, or Dark lager, dark. Pale lager is the most widely consumed and commercially availab ...
produced by Eswatini Beverages Ltd, called ''Sibebe Premium Lager''.


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