Maphumulo

{{Distinguish|Mapumulo}}

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{{Infobox settlement

| name = Maphumulo

| pushpin_map = South Africa KwaZulu-Natal#South Africa

| coordinates = {{coord|29.100|S|30.975|E|region:ZA|display=inline,title}}

| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = South Africa

| subdivision_type1 = Province

| subdivision_name1 = KwaZulu-Natal

| subdivision_type2 = District

| subdivision_name2 = Ilembe

| subdivision_type3 = Municipality

| subdivision_name3 = Maphumulo

| subdivision_type4 = Main Place

| established_title = Established

| leader_title = Councillor

| area_footnotes = {{refn|{{cite web |url=http://census.adrianfrith.com/place/54605006 |title = Sub Place Maphumulo |work=Census 2001}} |name=census2001}}

| area_total_km2 = 5.11

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| population_total = 1246

| population_as_of = 2001

| population_density_km2 = auto

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| demographics1_title4 = White

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| timezone1 = SAST

| utc_offset1 = +2

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Maphumulo is a town in Ilembe District Municipality in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.

Settlement some 42 km north-west of Stanger and 38 km south-east of Kranskop. Named after the Mapumulo Zulu people who came to live here after being driven out by Shaka; the name is said to mean ‘heaven of rest’.{{cite web|title=Dictionary of Southern African Place Names (Public Domain)|url=https://archive.org/details/DictionaryOfSouthernAfricanPlaceNames|publisher=Human Science Research Council|page=297}} This village had a trading store (owned by J.O. Christie {{Citation|last=Greenwood|first=C. J.|editor1-first=E|editor1-last=Lauterpacht|title=SA MARBRERIE FOCANT v. SA BACCI|work=International Law Reports|year=1987|pages=571–576|publisher=Cambridge University Press|doi=10.1017/cbo9781316152010.070|isbn=978-1-316-15201-0}}) a police station, a magistrate's court, and a post office - all during the 1940s and 1950s.