Heatonville is a settlement approximately 13 km north-west of Empangeni. It was named after George Heaton Nicholls, member of Parliament for Zululand from 1920, later also Administrator of Natal and High Commissioner for South Africa from 1944.
A 1959 archaeological paper“Middle and Later Stone Age Assemblages near Heatonville, Zululand” places prehistoric activity in the vicinity of Heatonville and Lower Umfolozi.
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