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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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Ngqeleni

Ngqeleni is a town in OR Tambo District Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

Village in West Pondoland, 32 km southeast of Umtata and about 40 km north-north-west of Coffee Bay. The name is derived from the Xhosa ngqele, ‘cold’ or ‘frost’. Coldstream, which flows past it, may have a name translated from Ngqeleni, ‘at the cold’."

References

  1. ^ "Main Place Ngqeleni". Census 2011.
  2. ^ "Dictionary of Southern African Place Names (Public Domain)". Human Science Research Council. p. 335.