Umtata

American  

[oom-tah-tuh] / ʊmˈtɑ tə /

noun

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

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Umtata British  

/ ʌmˈtɑːtə /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

Among the new buildings being erected near Umtata is a $345,000 mansion for the chief.

From Time Magazine Archive

When the celebrated South African play Sizwe Banzi Is Dead was presented in Umtata, Matanzima was furious at its barbed references to the Transkei's independence as meaningless.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even as that possibility became remote, she never resigned herself to the fact that Johannesburg would be our home, or let go of the idea that we might move back to Umtata.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

I had never seen so many cars on the road at one time — even in Umtata, there were never more than a handful of cars and here there were thousands.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela