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along a bypass road (opened 1994, rebuilt 2004 for the opening of the Mavuso Trade Fair) is
Helemesi Estates. Here middle-class dwellings were erected in the early 1990s on the former farm of Sydney Williams, the long-serving Resident Commissioner during British rule. Helemesi is the SiSwati corruption of the name Williams. The housing development is surrounded by Fairview Township, developed in 1964 during the twilight of colonial rule as Eswatini's first integrated residential neighborhood. The 19th-century law, reaffirmed by ordinances in the 1920s, forbade Swazis from residing or owning businesses in Bremserdorp. Until the 1960s Swazi business proprietors used Europeans as fronts in order to operate "Native Eating Houses" and other establishments.
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290:. Named the Riverside Hotel, it remained opened until 1997, changing its name over the years to the Manzini Arms Hotel and in the 1990s the Velebantfu Hotel. The buildings were intact after closure for several years but were leveled in 2008 by private developers. A shopping mall opened on the site in 2011.
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A commercial center from the time a trading post was opened in 1885, Bremersdorp was designated a township in 1898. Arthur Bremer sold his hotel for use to
British Colonial authorities who had administered Swaziland since 1894 as their national administrative headquarters, and stipulated that the
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Upscale residential neighborhoods were erected to the east of downtown, beginning with Coates Valley in the 1960s. Extension 6 north of Coates Valley is predominantly middle-class homes and abuts a planned community of up-market properties, Madonsa
Township. Large homes were erected at Madonsa
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Residential areas radiate outward from the
Central Business District. At the western terminus of the city on the highway to Mbabane is KaKhoza Township, a poor neighborhood with the appearance of an informal settlement. North of downtown beyond the Mavuso International Trade Fair (opened 2004)
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The popularity of
Fairview Township prompted the expansion of the area north of a hill occupied at its summit by St. Paul's Methodist Church and School, beside a landmark water tower. The newer development was named Fairview North and the original development became Fairview South.
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word for "village"). The name reverted to its original Swazi name, Manzini, in 1960 in honor of Chief
Manzini Mbokane who was one of the trusted confidant and senior indvuna of King Mbandzeni. Chief Manzini Mbokane was the father to Ntengu kaGama Mbokane.
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South of downtown is the sprawling lower and middle-class Ngwane Park
Township developed from a private farm since the 1970s. However, most areas surrounding Manzini are rural Swazi Nation Land administered by chiefs.
301:, 56.9 km east, is the new international airport. Manzini is the closest urban center. Agricultural Bank of China is a major financier of the new international airport.
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Manzini has pockets of extreme poverty: informal settlements along the river, east of Coates Valley, and west between KaKhoza
Township and the industrial town Matsapha.
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Christian radio station called Voice of the Church based in the city. It was established in 1995 and they had one transmitter by then.
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