Tugela Ferry is a town on the northern bank of the Tugela River

Tugela River

The Tugela River is the largest river in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. The river originates in the Drakensberg Mountains, Mont-aux-Sources, and plunges 947 metres down the Tugela Falls...

, in central 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. During the apartheid era it formed part of the KwaZulu

KwaZulu

KwaZulu was a bantustan in South Africa, intended by the apartheid government as a semi-independent homeland for the Zulu people. The capital, formerly at Nongoma, was moved in 1980 to Ulundi....

 homeland, and at present it is included in the Umzinyathi DM

Umzinyathi District Municipality

Umzinyathi is one of the 11 district municipalities of KwaZulu-Natal province in South Africa. The seat of Umzinyathi is Dundee. The majority of its 456 452 people speak IsiZulu...

. The town's name commemorates the ferry which once operated here before a bridge was constructed.
The town's hospital (Church of Scotland Hospital) is famous for having discovered the first XDR-TB

Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis

Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis is a form of TB caused by bacteria that are resistant to the most effective anti-TB drugs. Some contend that XDR-TB strains have emerged from the mismanagement of multidrug-resistant TB and once created, can spread from one person to another...

outbreak in 2005.