Botha's Hill

Botha's Hill
Botha's Hill in 2010
Botha's Hill Botha's Hill
Coordinates: 29°45′7.2″S 30°44′24″E
Country	South Africa
Province	KwaZulu-Natal
Municipality	eThekwini
Government
• Type	Ward 103
• Councillor	Jeffrey Mchunu (ANC)
Area
• Total	3.85 km2 (1.49 sq mi)
Population  (2011)
• Total	2,673
• Density	690/km2 (1,800/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
• Black African	49.6%
• Coloured	1.1%
• Indian/Asian	5.1%
• White	43.5%
• Other	0.6%
First languages (2011)
• Zulu	47.0%
• English	43.0%
• Afrikaans	3.4%
• Other	6.6%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Postal code (street)	3610
PO box	3660
Area code	031

Botha's Hill (locally /ˈbʊərtə-/, Afrikaans: [ˈbuəta]) is a small town outside Hillcrest in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It remains a peaceful beautiful hill where regular country style food and craft markets are held. It is the gateway to the Valley of a Thousand Hills. Kearsney College moved to Botha's Hill in 1939. Alan Paton, the author of Cry, the Beloved Country and Too Late the Phalarope lived here until his death on 12 April 1988.

The village is 37 km north-west of Durban, on the old main road to Pietermaritzburg.

There have been different opinions about the origin of the name of Botha's Hill. The Dictionary of Southern African Place Names claims it was named after a settler, Philip Rudolph Botha, grandfather of General Louis Botha (1862–1919), first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa. Research undertaken by Robin W. Lamplough and published in the journal of the Natal Society, suggests that Botha's Hill was named after Cornelis Botha, a former harbour master of Port Natal.

Gallery

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  Railway, Bothas Hill
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  Railway station Bothas Hill (app. 1890)
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