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((Infobox settlement
| name                    = Dundee
| image_skyline           = NG kerk Dundee.JPG
| image_caption           = Dutch Reformed Church, Dundee
| pushpin_map             = South Africa KwaZulu-Natal#South Africa
| coordinates             = ((coord|28|10|21|S|30|13|53|E|region:ZA|display=inline,title))
| subdivision_type        = Country
| subdivision_name        = [[South Africa]]
| subdivision_type1       = Province
| subdivision_name1       = [[KwaZulu-Natal]]
| subdivision_type2       = District
| subdivision_name2       = [[Umzinyathi District Municipality|Umzinyathi]]
| subdivision_type3       = Municipality
| subdivision_name3       = [[Endumeni Local Municipality|Endumeni]]
| subdivision_type4       = Main Place
| established_title       = Established
| established_date        = 1835<ref name=established>((cite thesis |last=Robson |first=Linda Gillian |title=The Royal Engineers and settlement planning in the Cape Colony 1806–1872: Approach, methodology and impact |date=2011 |type=PhD thesis |publisher=University of Pretoria |chapter=Annexure A |chapter-url=https://repository.up.ac.za/bitstream/handle/2263/26503/05back.pdf?sequence=6&isAllowed=y#page=31 |url=https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/26503 |hdl=2263/26503 |pages=xlv–lii))</ref>
| leader_title            = Councillor
| area_footnotes          = <ref name="census2011">((cite web |url=http://census2011.adrianfrith.com/place/574003 |title = Main Place Dundee |work=Census 2011))</ref>
| area_total_km2          = 48.60
| population_footnotes    = <ref name="census2011" />
| population_total        = 34924
| population_as_of        = 2011
| population_density_km2  = auto
<!-- demographics (section 1) -->
| demographics_type1      = Racial makeup (2011)
| demographics1_footnotes = <ref name="census2011" />
| demographics1_title1    = [[Bantu peoples of South Africa|Black African]]
| demographics1_info1     = 81.2%
| demographics1_title2    = [[Coloureds|Coloured]]
| demographics1_info2     = 4.1%
| demographics1_title3    = [[Indian South African|Indian]]/[[Asian South African|Asian]]
| demographics1_info3     = 7.0%
| demographics1_title4    = [[White South African|White]]
| demographics1_info4     = 7.2%
| demographics1_title5    = Other
| demographics1_info5     = 0.5%
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| demographics_type2      = [[First language]]s (2011)
| demographics2_footnotes = <ref name="census2011" />
| demographics2_title1    = [[Zulu language|Zulu]]
| demographics2_info1     = 76.3%
| demographics2_title2    = [[South African English|English]]
| demographics2_info2     = 15.6%
| demographics2_title3    = [[Afrikaans]]
| demographics2_info3     = 4.5%
| demographics2_title4    = 
| demographics2_info4     = 
| demographics2_title5    = Other
| demographics2_info5     = 3.7%
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| timezone1               = [[South African Standard Time|SAST]]
| utc_offset1             = +2
| postal_code_type        = [[List of postal codes in South Africa|Postal code]] (street)
| postal_code             = 3000
| postal2_code_type       = [[Post-office box|PO box]]
| postal2_code            = 3000
| area_code_type          = [[Telephone numbers in South Africa|Area code]]
| area_code               = 034
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The coal mining town of '''Dundee''' is situated in a valley of the [[Biggarsberg]] mountains in [[KwaZulu-Natal]], [[South Africa]] (((coord|28|10|S|30|14|E|scale:40000))). It is part of the [[Endumeni Local Municipality|Endumeni Municipality]], [[Umzinyathi District Municipality|Umzinyathi District]]. It is very rich in [[coal]] deposits. More populous than the town of Dundee is its adjacent [[Township (South Africa)|township]] named Sibongile. This township is now being extended with many residing zones, e.g. Lindelani.

Dundee was established by Peter Smith, with land contributed by his son in-law, in 1882 after the realisation that the valley was a natural way for travellers into the interior of Africa. Traders, hunters explorers, missionaries and soldiers all made their way through here. A large fort, Fort Jones, housed British troops in the area during the Anglo Zulu War of 1879. The discovery of coal in the area dates from early Voortrekker records of 1838 and later geological surveys in the 1860s. It is named after the hometown of a pioneering [[Scotland|Scottish]] [[settler]], Peter Smith. At first, Dundee was a farm (Dundee farm), the property of Peter Smith, which he had bought from a [[Voortrekker]] settler, Mr Dekker. Three other men are also credited with the founding of Dundee; his son William Craighead Smith, son-in-law Dugald McPhail, and close family friend Charles Wilson.<Talana Museum>

==Geography==
The town lies nestled in a valley of the picturesque Biggarsberg and is surrounded by historical remarkable mountains of “Indumeni” (where the thunder rolls), “Mpati” (The place of good waters), and “Talana” (The shelf where precious items are kept). Dundee has trails of the [[Bushmen|San]] people that lived here 4 000 – 5 000 years ago. Evidence of this is to be found in lifestyle and rock paintings in several caves and shelters.

===Climate===
Dundee has a [[Oceanic climate|subtropical highland climate]] (''Cwb'', according to the [[Köppen climate classification]]), with pleasant summers and cool, dry winters. The average annual precipitation is ((convert|684|mm|0|abbr=on)), with rainfall occurring mainly during summer.

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|9|23|31
|6|21|8
|3|19|1
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==History==
* The [[Boer]]s reported surface coal here and named one of the streams [[Steenkoolspruit]] ([[Afrikaans language|Afrikaans]] for ''Coal Stream'').
* Peter Smith, a [[Scotland|Scottish]] settler started sending wagonloads of coal, which was discovered close to the surface, to be sold in [[Pietermaritzburg]]. This started the coal mining industry in Natal.
* The first geological survey of the Natal coalfields was made in the 1860s and proved that there were workable coal deposits.
* In 1882 a town was laid out and named after Smith’s Scottish hometown [[Dundee]].
* Smith, with partners Dougald McPhail and Charles Willson, floated the Dundee Coal and Estate Company on the [[London Stock Exchange]] in 1899.
*Second Boer War: The [[United Kingdom|British]] started massing troops at Dundee and were given an ultimatum by the Boers to retreat with the troops. On 20 October 1899, the first shots of the war were fired. The news of this battle hit the headlines in [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|Britain]] as the "Battle of Glencoe", which was corrected the following day to the "Battle of Dundee" and on the third day to the "[[Battle of Talana Hill|Battle of Talana]]." It was on the slopes of Talana Hill that the British army troops officially wore khaki uniforms for the first time in battle; it is also notable as the first indisputable use of [[indirect fire]] in modern warfare, and the tactic as applied by Boer [[field artillery]] had a devastating effect. After the battle, the British troops retreated to [[Ladysmith, South Africa|Ladysmith]] and [[Boer]] forces occupied the town, renaming it Meyersdorp. This occupation lasted seven months. Dundee was relieved after the battle of Helpmekaar in May 1900.
[[Image:Boers watch the fight at Dundee, KwaZulu-Natal, 1899 - Project Gutenberg eText 16462.jpg|thumbnail|Boers watch the fighting at Dundee in 1899]]
* The town's folk who had left before or shortly after the battle returned and the town began to flourish again. Dundee soon emerged as a boomtown graced with stately homes and the first theatre north of Durban.
* Pioneer traders from the [[India|Indian sub-continent]] settled here during the following decade, when Dundee became the meeting place of seven roads into the hinterland and coast of Africa.
* [[Mahatma Gandhi]] was tried in the Dundee courthouse for civil disobedience and imprisoned in the Dundee jail.<ref>((cite web|title=Talana Museum Gandhi Memorial|url=http://www.talana.co.za/html/ghandi_memorial.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921053348/http://www.talana.co.za/html/ghandi_memorial.html|archive-date=2013-09-21))</ref>

==Popular culture==
* The poem "The Battle of Dundee" aka "How President Kruger's Irish Took in Her Majestys Hiberians"[http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cdnc/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&cl=search&d=SFC19000318.2.61&srpos=13&e=-------en--20--1--txt-IN-battle+dundee----#] by Rev I. Dempsey about the battle was widely circulated in print media of the time.
* In the Disney Channel Movie [[The Color of Friendship]], one of the main characters, Mahree Bok, is from Dundee.

==Sport==
The Northern-Natal Rhinos (Noord-Natal Renosters) Wrestling Club in Dundee is one of the top wrestling clubs in the province of Kwa-Zulu Natal.

Sentraal Rugby Club is one of the top sides in Northern-Natal. Titans Rugby club is a youth rugby team that builds future rugby players (Grassroots). Rhino Women's Rugby Club has constantly produced Sharks Craven week players and have represented Umzinyathi District in the annual Salga games

==Coat of arms==
Dundee was a borough in its own right from 1902 to 1996.  In October 1951, the council obtained a grant of arms from the [[Lord Lyon]] King of Arms in Scotland.  It registered the arms at the [[Bureau of Heraldry]] in July 1995.<ref name=boh>[http://www.national.archsrch.gov.za/sm300cv/smws/sm300dl National Archives of South Africa : Data of the Bureau of Heraldry]</ref>

The arms, which were based on those of the Scottish burgh of [[Dundee]], were : ''Azure,  a  pot  with  three  lilies issuant Argent, charged  with  a miner's lamp proper and on a chief Or two wildebeest courant  in fess, Sable; the shield ensigned of a mural crown Argent''.  In layman's terms : a blue shield displaying two black wildebeest on a golden strip above three lilies in a silver pot decorated with a miner's lamp.  The motto was ''Per victoriam laboremque''.

==References==
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((UMzinyathi District Municipality))
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[[Category:Populated places in the Endumeni Local Municipality]]
[[Category:Mining communities in South Africa]]
[[Category:Populated places established in 1835]]
[[Category:1835 establishments in Africa]]

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