# Komatipoort

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Town in Mpumalanga, South Africa

Komatipoort Town A street in Komatipoort Komatipoort Show map of Mpumalanga Komatipoort Show map of South Africa Komatipoort Show map of Africa Coordinates: 25°26′S 31°57′E / 25.433°S 31.950°E / -25.433; 31.950 Country South Africa Province Mpumalanga District Ehlanzeni Municipality Nkomazi Area [1] • Total 11.71 km2 (4.52 sq mi) Population (2011)[1] • Total 4,683 • Density 399.9/km2 (1,036/sq mi) Racial makeup (2011) [1] • Black African 61.0% • Coloured 1.2% • Indian/Asian 2.8% • White 34.4% • Other 0.6% First languages (2011) [1] • Afrikaans 30.8% • Tsonga 28.4% • Swazi 27.7% • English 7.6% • Other 5.5% Time zone UTC+2 (SAST) Postal code (street) 1340 PO box 1340 Area code 013

**Komatipoort** is a town situated at the confluence of the [Crocodile](/source/Crocodile_River_(Mpumalanga)) and [Komati Rivers](/source/Komati_River) in [Mpumalanga](/source/Mpumalanga) province, [South Africa](/source/South_Africa). The town is 8 km from the Crocodile Bridge Gate into the [Kruger National Park](/source/Kruger_Park), just 3 km from the [Mozambique](/source/Mozambique) border and 65 km from the [Eswatini](/source/Eswatini) border.

It is a small, quiet town within the Lowveld with some attractive tree-lined streets. It is one of the hottest towns in South Africa where temperatures can reach almost 48 °C (47.7 °C (117.9 °F) on 12 December 1944) in the height of summer, but also with a perfect winter climate around 24 °C (75 °F).

## History

'Komati' also takes its name from [Khoekhoe](/source/Khoekhoe_language), one of RSA's first languages, referring to the once wealthy cattle owners on this land, with 'koma' meaning cows and 'ti' meaning my.

'Komati' takes its name from the [Komati River](/source/Komati_River) whose original native [Swazi](/source/Swazi_language) name is Nkomazi, translated as "river of cows". It is where the Crocodile and Komati Rivers meet to flow through the 'Poort' (mountain pass) through the [Lebombo Mountains](/source/Lebombo_Mountains) into Mozambique.

In the 1890s Komatipoort was a wild and uproarious construction camp for the railway being built from Lourenco Marques (modern [Maputo](/source/Maputo)). Conditions were not the best with the area gripped by a malaria epidemic; it was in the zone called 'fever country'.

Komatipoort was the last stop in the [South African Republic](/source/South_African_Republic) (ZAR) Pretoria - Delagoa Bay Line constructed by the [Netherlands-South African Railway Company](/source/Netherlands-South_African_Railway_Company) (NZASM) with the first train crossing the border at Komatipoort from the ZAR to [Portuguese East Africa](/source/Portuguese_Mozambique) on 1 July 1891 after the completion of the rail bridge over the Komati River.

Between 1900 and 1902 during the [Anglo/Boer War](/source/Second_Boer_War), the town was used as a base by Major F. Von Steinaecker and his group known as 'Steinaecker's Horse'. They were a bunch of mercenaries and bushwhackers and were recruited by the British in order to fight Boer guerrillas in the [bushveld](/source/Veld).

Near Komatipoort is the site where the former Mozambique's President [Samora Machel](/source/Samora_Machel) died in a plane crash at Mbuzini village in the Lebombo mountain, the natural barrier between South Africa and Mozambique. At the site of the accident stands the [Samora Machel Monument](/source/Samora_Machel_Monument).

The [Nkomati Accord](/source/Nkomati_Accord) was signed in Komatipoort in 1984.

## Infrastructure

This town has a railway station for the loading and unloading of passengers and cargo on the [Pretoria–Maputo railway](/source/Pretoria%E2%80%93Maputo_railway).[2][3]

The town is the site of a [dry port](/source/Dry_port).

## See also

- [Railway stations in Mozambique](/source/Railway_stations_in_Mozambique)

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-census2011_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-census2011_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-census2011_1-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-census2011_1-3) ["Main Place Komatipoort"](http://census2011.adrianfrith.com/place/876004). *Census 2011*.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Atlassian_2-0)** [Mozambique Logistics Infrastructure: Mozambique Railway Assessment](https://dlca.logcluster.org/display/public/DLCA/2.4+Mozambique+Railway+Assessment). Atlassian Confluence. 10 de dezembro de 2018.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["The seven-year long construction of Delagoa Bay railway line starts"](https://web.archive.org/web/20131230104507/http://www.sahistory.org.za/dated-event/seven-year-long-construction-delagoa-bay-railway-line-starts%C2%A0%C2%A0). *South African History Online*. Archived from [the original](http://www.sahistory.org.za/dated-event/seven-year-long-construction-delagoa-bay-railway-line-starts%C2%A0%C2%A0) on 30 December 2013. Retrieved 24 June 2014.

## External links

- [Unofficial Town Portal](https://web.archive.org/web/20131213061838/http://www.komatipoort.co.za/)

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