Umzinto - South Coast KwaZulu Natal South Africa

Umzinto lies a little inland form the South Coast of KwaZulu Natal Province of South Africa just a little south of Scottburgh . Inland from Umzinto is Sugar Country. These are the cane-fields whose yield precipitated the flurry of transport initiatives around the turn of the century...and whose legacy of indentured plantation labour and immigrant traders from the Indian sub-continent makes up much of today's South Coast society. Umzinto is predominantly an Indian-influenced town which gives it a slightly more exotic air than some of the other KwaZulu Natal coastal towns. An early magistracy, Umzinto also witnessed the first horse races south of Durban, and many a pioneering fortune changed hands at these meetings!