The coal mining town of Dundee is situated in a valley of the Biggarsberg mountains in KwaZulu-Natal

KwaZulu-Natal

KwaZulu-Natal is a province of South Africa. Prior to 1994, the territory now known as KwaZulu-Natal was made up of the province of Natal and the homeland of KwaZulu....

, South Africa

South Africa

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 (28°10′S 30°14′E). It is part of the Endumeni Local Municipality, Umzinyathi District. It is rich in coal

Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams. The harder forms, such as anthracite coal, can be regarded as metamorphic rock because of later exposure to elevated temperature and pressure...

 deposits. More populous than the town of Dundee itself is its adjacent township named Sibongile.

Dundee was formed in 1882 after a discovery of the availability of coal closest to the surface by the Boers (Famers).