Weenen

Weenen (Dutch for "wept") is the second oldest European settlement in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is situated on the banks of the Bushman River. The farms around the town grow vegetables, lucerne, groundnuts, and citrus fruit.

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Settlement.name: Weenen
Settlement.pushpin_map: South Africa KwaZulu-Natal#South Africa
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: South Africa
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Province
Settlement.subdivision_name1: KwaZulu-Natal
Settlement.subdivision_type2: District
Settlement.subdivision_name2: uThukela
Settlement.subdivision_type3: Municipality
Settlement.subdivision_name3: Inkosi Langalibalele
Settlement.subdivision_type4: Main Place
Settlement.established_title: Established
Settlement.established_date: 1839
Settlement.leader_title: Councillor
Settlement.area_total_km2: 71.98
Settlement.population_total: 3126
Settlement.population_as_of: 2011
Settlement.population_density_km2: auto

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Dialing code: 036

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inception: 1839-01-01
postal code: 3325
Commons category: Weenen

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History
Weenen Museum
Parks and greenspaces
Weenen Game Reserve
Sports
White water rafting
See also
References

==History== The plots was laid out in 1839 at the site of a massacre by the Zulus following Voortrekker settlements in the area near the royal kraal of Dingane. The Voortrekkers had arrived in the area a year earlier and the town's Dutch name (place of weeping) originates from the massacre of 100 men and women, 185 children and 200 Khoikhoi servants. The settlement was officially surveyed and established in 1841. The Bushman River was bridged by the Jubliee Bridge in 1898. In 1910, it became governed by a local board. A now-closed narrow gauge railway was built in 1907 to connect the town to Estcourt, 47 kilometres to the west until 1983 and provided an outlet for its produce and was thus called the "Cabbage Express'.