Simunye is a

sugar mill A sugar cane mill is a factory that processes sugar cane to produce raw or white sugar. The term is also used to refer to the equipment that crushes the sticks of sugar cane to extract the juice. Processing There are a number of steps in pr ...

town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than city, cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares ...

on the

lowveld Veld ( or ), also spelled veldt, is a type of wide open rural landscape in :Southern Africa. Particularly, it is a flat area covered in grass or low scrub, especially in the countries of South Africa, Lesotho, Eswatini, Zimbabwe and Botswan ...

in eastern

Eswatini Eswatini ( ; ss, eSwatini ), officially the Kingdom of Eswatini and formerly named Swaziland ( ; officially renamed in 2018), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. It is bordered by Mozambique to its northeast and South Africa to its ...

. Almost all of the residents of the town work for the Royal Eswatini Sugar Corporation's sugar mill located nearby. The town is located about south of the border crossing to

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring count ...

(the border crossing is known as Bordergate on the Eswatini side and Mananga on the South African side) and about from the border crossing to Mozambique (known as Lomahashaon the Eswatini side and Namaacha on the Mozambique side). It lies slightly west of the

Lubombo Mountains The Lebombo Mountains, also called Lubombo Mountains ( pt, Montes Libombos), are an , narrow range of mountains in Southern Africa. They stretch from Hluhluwe in KwaZulu-Natal in the south to Punda Maria in the Limpopo Province in South Africa ...

, about north-east of

Siteki Siteki is a town in eastern Eswatini, lying west of the Lebombo Mountains, with an estimated population of 6381 as of 2013. It is named for a declaration of Mbandzeni permitting his troops to marry Marriage, also called matrimony o ...

. The town is geographically only about north-west of

Mhlumeni Mhlumeni is a town in eastern Eswatini on the border with Mozambique. It lies in the Lubombo Mountains about 40 kilometres north-east of Siteki in Lubombo District Lubombo is a region of Eswatini, located in the east of the country. It has an ...

on the eastern border, but because of the mountain range it is probably faster by road detouring southwards through

Sport

The town is home to the Royal Leopards F.C.

RSSC United FC Royal Swaziland Sugar Corporation United FC is a Swazi soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a ...

is a football club that was the result of the merger between

Mhlume United Mhlume United Football Club is a defunct Eswatinii soccer club based in Mhlume. It played in the Premier League of Eswatini. History The team was founded by merging two teams Mhlume Peacemakers and Mhlume FC. In 1981 Mhlume Peacemakers has won ...

and Simunye FC.

Schools

The town which is an RESC Estate town, has a number of schools and pre-schools. Thembelisha Preparatory School is the only private Primary school. There are two Government-aided primary schools, Ngomane primary school and Lusoti Primary school. Likewise, there are two High Schools, Ngomane High School and Lusoti HIgh School. The Lusoti schools are right within the village, whilst the Ngomane schools are away.

References

Populated places in Eswatini {{Eswatini-geo-stub