Heatonville

CountrySouth Africa

Time zoneUTC+2 (SAST)

PO box

3881

Heatonville
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Coordinates: 28°39′32″S 31°47′06″E / 28.659°S 31.785°E / -28.659; 31.785
Country	South Africa
Province	KwaZulu-Natal
District	King Cetshwayo
Municipality	uMhlathuze
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
PO box	3881

Heatonville is a settlement approximately 13 km north-west of Empangeni. It was named after George Heaton Nicholls (1876-1959), member of Parliament for Zululand from 1920, later also Administrator of Natal and High Commissioner for South Africa from 1944.^[1]

The area around Heatonville has a much deeper human history than the written local record suggests. A 1959 archaeological paper on “Middle and Later Stone Age Assemblages near Heatonville, Zululand” places prehistoric activity in the vicinity of Heatonville and Lower Umfolozi.