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along a bypass road (opened 1994, rebuilt 2004 for the opening of the Mavuso Trade Fair) is
Helemesi Estates. Here middle-class dwellings were erected in the early 1990s on the former farm of Sydney Williams, the long-serving Resident Commissioner during British rule. Helemesi is the SiSwati corruption of the name Williams. The housing development is surrounded by Fairview Township, developed in 1964 during the twilight of colonial rule as Eswatini's first integrated residential neighborhood. The 19th-century law, reaffirmed by ordinances in the 1920s, forbade Swazis from residing or owning businesses in Bremserdorp. Until the 1960s Swazi business proprietors used Europeans as fronts in order to operate "Native Eating Houses" and other establishments.
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61:
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272:. However, Bremersdorp subsequently remained the commercial, agricultural, and transportation heart of Swaziland, earning the town the nickname "The Hub." Since its inception in the 1920s, the Agricultural and Mechanical Show (name later changed to the Swaziland International Trade Fair) has been the country's largest and best-attended annual event.
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279:. Named the Riverside Hotel, it remained opened until 1997, changing its name over the years to the Manzini Arms Hotel and in the 1990s the Velebantfu Hotel. The buildings were intact after closure for several years but were leveled in 2008 by private developers. A shopping mall opened on the site in 2011.
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A commercial center from the time a trading post was opened in 1885, Bremersdorp was designated a township in 1898. Arthur Bremer sold his hotel for use to
British Colonial authorities who had administered Swaziland since 1894 as their national administrative headquarters, and stipulated that the
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Upscale residential neighborhoods were erected to the east of downtown, beginning with Coates Valley in the 1960s. Extension 6 north of Coates Valley is predominantly middle-class homes and abuts a planned community of up-market properties, Madonsa
Township. Large homes were erected at Madonsa
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Residential areas radiate outward from the
Central Business District. At the western terminus of the city on the highway to Mbabane is KaKhoza Township, a poor neighborhood with the appearance of an informal settlement. North of downtown beyond the Mavuso International Trade Fair (opened 2004)
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The popularity of
Fairview Township prompted the expansion of the area north of a hill occupied at its summit by St. Paul's Methodist Church and School, beside a landmark water tower. The newer development was named Fairview North and the original development became Fairview South.
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word for "village"). The name reverted to its original Swazi name, Manzini, in 1960 in honor of Chief
Manzini Mbokane who was one of the trusted confidant and senior indvuna of King Mbandzeni. Chief Manzini Mbokane was the father to Ntengu kaGama Mbokane.
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South of downtown is the sprawling lower and middle-class Ngwane Park
Township developed from a private farm since the 1970s. However, most areas surrounding Manzini are rural Swazi Nation Land administered by chiefs.
290:, 56.9 km east, is the new international airport. Manzini is the closest urban center. Agricultural Bank of China is a major financier of the new international airport.
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Manzini has pockets of extreme poverty: informal settlements along the river, east of Coates Valley, and west between KaKhoza
Township and the industrial town Matsapha.
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There is a
Christian radio station called Voice of the Church based in the city. It was established in 1995 and they had one transmitter by then.
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Manzini was declared a city in 1994, when its administrative apparatus, the
Manzini Town Council, became the Manzini City Council.
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In 1915, the first hotel since Bremersdorp's post-Anglo/Boer War reconstruction was opened on the banks of the
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Matsebula, J.S.M. "A History of Swaziland" (Cape Town, South Africa, Longman South Africa, 1972)
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215:, with a population of 110,000 (2008). It is known as "The Hub" of Eswatini and lies on the
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Manzini is home to a Nazarene High School, which has a successful school choir.
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211:. The city is the country's second largest urban center behind the capital
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Township from the 1990s until all lots were developed ten years later.
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colonial headquarters from 1890, but was destroyed in 1902 amid the
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740:"Mayor's Office – Municipal Council of Manzini"
722:the paralympian skier, was born here in 1985.
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883:Populated places in Manzini Region
832:International Paralympic Committee
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235:Ex Tum's George Hotel in Manzini
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26:City in Manzini Region, Eswatini
80:Location of Manzini in Eswatini
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284:Matsapha International Airport
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544:Average rainfall mm (inches)
863:Manzini City Council website
770:"Voice of the Church (VOC)"
474:Mean daily minimum °C (°F)
404:Mean daily maximum °C (°F)
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282:Opened in the 1970s,
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19:For other uses, see
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614:Average rainy days
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173: • Total
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300:Geography
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776:19 April
689:Keighley
658:Source:
609:(36.34)
221:Matsapha
217:MR3 road
136:Eswatini
693:England
675:twinned
604:(4.62)
599:(5.19)
594:(4.26)
589:(2.20)
584:(0.93)
579:(0.48)
574:(0.33)
569:(0.70)
564:(2.54)
559:(4.06)
554:(5.57)
549:(5.46)
539:(58.0)
534:(64.2)
529:(61.3)
524:(58.8)
519:(55.9)
514:(51.3)
509:(48.4)
504:(48.0)
499:(53.6)
494:(59.2)
489:(63.9)
484:(65.5)
479:(65.5)
469:(78.4)
464:(82.8)
459:(79.7)
454:(78.3)
449:(78.1)
444:(75.0)
439:(72.7)
434:(72.3)
429:(75.9)
424:(78.4)
419:(81.1)
414:(82.6)
409:(83.3)
332:Climate
270:Mbabane
254:British
244:is the
227:History
213:Mbabane
197:Manzini
181:Website
124:Country
74:Manzini
33:Manzini
677:with:
360:Month
342:Köppen
176:78,000
142:Region
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709:Spain
653:82.5
650:10.9
617:11.5
607:923.1
602:117.4
597:131.7
592:108.3
557:103.2
552:141.6
547:138.6
399:Year
159:Mayor
814:link
800:2024
778:2018
644:9.3
641:5.5
638:3.5
635:1.7
632:1.4
629:2.6
626:5.8
620:8.3
587:55.9
582:23.6
577:12.1
567:17.9
562:64.5
537:14.4
532:17.9
527:16.3
522:14.9
517:13.3
512:10.7
497:12.0
492:15.1
487:17.7
482:18.6
477:18.6
467:25.7
462:28.2
457:26.5
452:25.7
447:25.6
442:23.9
437:22.6
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427:24.4
422:25.8
417:27.3
412:28.1
407:28.5
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387:Sep
384:Aug
381:Jul
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372:Apr
369:Mar
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363:Jan
258:Boer
242:dorp
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572:8.3
507:9.1
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