Umtata

[oom-tah-tuh]

noun

1. a city in and the capital of Transkei, SE Africa.

Umtata

/ ʌmˈtɑːtə /

noun

1. a city in South Africa, in Eastern Cape province; the capital of the former Transkei Bantu homeland. Pop: 94 778 (2001)

Example Sentences

The unknown group of armed robbers burst into the police station near Umtata, and opened fire early on Wednesday morning.

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I was born on the eighteenth of July, 1918, at Mvezo, a tiny village on the banks of the Mbashe River in the district of Umtata, the capital of the Transkei.

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We lived in a less grand style in Qunu, but it was in that village near Umtata that I spent the happiest years of my boyhood and whence I trace my earliest memories.

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But what most amazed us about him was his marriage to a Xhosa girl from Umtata.

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I recall once traveling from Fort Hare to Umtata by train, riding in the African compartment, which were the only seats open to blacks.

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