Steynsdorp

Steynsdorp, officially eMlondozi,^[2] is a settlement in Gert Sibande District Municipality in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa.

Steynsdorp
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Coordinates: 26.133°S 30.983°E / -26.133; 30.983
Country	South Africa
Province	Mpumalanga
District	Gert Sibande
Municipality	Albert Luthuli
Area [1]
• Total	1.14 km2 (0.44 sq mi)
Population  (2001)[1]
• Total	585
• Density	510/km2 (1,300/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2001) [1]
• Black African	100.0%
First languages (2001) [1]
• Swazi	91.8%
• Zulu	8.2%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)

It was founded in 1885 and became the centre of the New Paarl goldfield but was abandoned when the Witwatersrand goldfields were discovered.

At first called Painter's Camp, it was named Steynsburg in 1886, after Commandant J P Steyn of Lydenburg. The name was then altered to Steynsdorp to avoid confusion with Steynsburg in the Cape, now Eastern Cape.^[3]