Mbombela/Nelspruit City Gallery

Mbombela also and formerly known as Nelspruit is the finnancial and Legislative capital of the Mpumalanga Province in the east of South Africa.

It is located in the Lowveld valley surrounded by a natural setup of recognisable geographical features such as batholiths, mountain ranges and valleys.

It is very close to the Kruger National Park and other game parks.
The area is also known for its subtrobical fruits and has a Savanna Bushveld which is usally green in the hot wet summers and thorny in the dry cool winters.

The city has an estimated 400 000+ people who live in the city suburbs and eastern townships mainly Kanyamazane, Kabokweni and Matsulu.

The area has a temperature range of;

Average 30+ Degrees Celcius Summers
Average 20+ Degrees Celcius Winters



Common Languages;

SiSwati (Swazi)
Afrikaans
English
Tsonga

In general Mbombela/Nelspruit is a small city in a big natural setup.

Ok finaly I have the pics guys, Well the sun was not on my side today but I hope its not too bad. Ok there goes nothing.:)

CBD from the N4 west

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In the CBD

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The Mid-City Building

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KaMkholo Building

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Brown Street "The Bank Street" and "everyone" lines up here on month end:bash:

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nice pics green and gold thanx. Well done for saying mbombela/nelspruit, should keep everyone appeased hehe. love the cleanliness and greenery. very nice

Stunning photos G&G, keep them coming.

The photo's look great and thank-you, but you said that you needed a buddy to stand guard while you took them?? Did you still need protection and why?? I was there last January going through to Inhambane and Maputo. This place is much safer than Moçambique...

^^ The guard thing I was just fooling around :lol: . The city is a bit safer than most but its just that no one flashes their camera around. There are nice spots around which deserve to be captured on digital frames, but nevertheless I will have to do a single man's show not unless Tedpole helps me out with his much clearer camera. Hey ted can you please get us Nelspruit from the rugby stadium view and from the north farms from the R40 that will be nice to see from your camera.

Cool pictures, clean city, nice buildings and like the green variety.

Thank you guys for the feed back ok here is more for now,

Promenade Shopping Center

Once owned by Liberty Property Group but sold it to BEE consortium. I honestly think they have not been loving this property like the former owners who made sure that the complex was thick painted white 2 times a year and the mini park on the west supper clean and the ground was spotless and there was a permanent dog patrol.
But with the shopping centers boom outside the CBD this has become a shadow of what it was once.

View from the East

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View from the South, If you were taken out for a movie you will remember this entrance :)

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The Orion Hotel once known as Prominade Hotel, Hey the current president has splet here

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Ok I do have a couple more pics but I have to wait for what tedpole could bring as this is not a big city.

Nice again, Tad please help the brother with your clear camera.

very nice pics. I have actually been to that shopping center before and a few other buildings downtown. This town is pretty safe and clean.

I see that I'm alone in the city lol.
Tadpole has moved to the Cape I think, but I will post pics nevertheless.

Ok guys this is my courtesy, my contribution to the Republic of SA :lol: and to you guys.

Nelspruit/Mbombela from the northeast, R40 Madiba Drive Freeway

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Back To The CBD

The Old Mutual and Sanlam from the Prominade view


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The Pinnacle Building meets the the old timer church on a sunnyday

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ABSA Square, first building of the "New Millenium" in town


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View from the Ferriera Street (Not a good speller)


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Samora Machel Drive, Oh what a view [B]

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[B]The Caltex Building, the building that "no one" remembers in town even though it stands oposite the much loved Shoprite shop.

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Ok guys I will bring you more sometime later for now this dude is about rest after walking for 11 km under the boiling lowveld summer sun.

Wonderful pics G&G.

thank you guys for the comments here is more just like I promised

R40 Madiba Drive from White River

MTN 2010 soccer world cup billboard

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Riverside on the Madiba Drive

Aview to the Lowveld Botenical Gardens

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Motor Showrooms (Garages in SA lingo)

Citroen Showroom

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Opel, Isuzu, Chervroltet, Hummer, Cadillac and SAAB showroom, so big I had to cross the freeway for the shot.

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Land Rover and Peogeot

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Nelspruit Prestige Motors My best shoot by far and 1024px desktop ready

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Mazda and Ford

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Some Riverside beauty greenery, Nice hey?

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Keep up good work.

Hey Green and Gold... nice pics. Those shots of the showrooms, are they part of a new development corridor, or is this in the middle of town?
That last pic is absolutely beautiful...
Nel/Bom is really looking nice
Keep up the pics:)

^^ The showrooms are on the development corridor towards the north and the plan is to join with the small town 20km to the north called White River.
The development area is called the Riverside and there are other developments here its just new building after building and I think in 25 years from now Nelspruit will be one with White River which is run from Nelspruit by the way.

Oh by the way this place gives you a feeling that you about to see the beach but eish we dont even have a lake.

Naspoti, always a pleasant place to visit. i used to go to Riverside mall everytime I'm in town. I will surely go there next time I visit. Thanks for the pics, please continue to post more!

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Ok guys here is more, its been a long time.

Still at the Riverside.

Mpumalanga Government Legislator

The dome is the parliament, its quit visible in the Riverside area

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Parks

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Sun International Hotel, can't get a close shot because of security reasons.

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The Grove Shopping Center

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Cool photos

Lovely pics G&G.

nice mfethu, keep them coming, sure you've got tickets for some of the games there in Nelspruit.

^^ Thanks guys for the comments, I have tickets for the games for sure.

I remember every corner of this town, I used to go to Spar and Medi-Clinic(super expensive) when I was younger and my mother used to drive around the city.
Keep posting more pics, love it!

Ok guys here are few more pics that I took during the winter and its now spring.


Back to the CBD and these are new building at Ferreira Street


I dont know what they are called and they look similar but they are different

This is an office used by SAPS

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This also a new office building but was used as a residential flat during the world cup.
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Lovely buildings my friend, thanks for sharing.

I know you have seen the Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport, but this is from the public administration site.

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The one and only Green_and_Gold(without my colours :))

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Yes the Impalas are at the airport premises, hard to believe I know.

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^^Sho boy. Why okara ke wenna o no chaela ma-nigeria mas3p@ on News24?? :lol:

Hey, bru, cool photos my man!

Living in Cape Town, it is easy to forget the tropical Africaness of the north, the feel of that place!
So keep up the photos, take photos of anything, just the bush along the road ( or ANY bush, for that matter, if you know what I mean!)
We need more.

^^Sho boy. Why okara ke wenna o no chaela ma-nigeria mas3p@ on News24?? :lol:

lol... I just though those Nigerians should get my peace of mind... You should become an investigator, how on earth do you connect a comment I made on News24 to me on this site?

Hey, bru, cool photos my man!

Living in Cape Town, it is easy to forget the tropical Africaness of the north, the feel of that place!
So keep up the photos, take photos of anything, just the bush along the road ( or ANY bush, for that matter, if you know what I mean!)
We need more.

I will get you more, I have a few pics I shot of the green scenery but never thought they would be relevant to the site... I will post soon...

lol... I just though those Nigerians should get my peace of mind... You should become an investigator, how on earth do you connect a comment I made on News24 to me on this site?

the face chico, it doesn't lie. Jokes, I actually clicked on your comment on N24 (y I don't comment on N24) and saw your FB avatar and that you stay in Nel and that you in IT, then I remembered you mentioning here on SSC that you're an IT entrepreneur, then when I saw your pic on this site I recognised you. Only thing left is to just get your name and location, maybe I'll ask Sdongerro :lol:

Beautiful city! Seems like a nice place to live

the face chico, it doesn't lie. Jokes, I actually clicked on your comment on N24 (y I don't comment on N24) and saw your FB avatar and that you stay in Nel and that you in IT, then I remembered you mentioning here on SSC that you're an IT entrepreneur, then when I saw your pic on this site I recognised you. Only thing left is to just get your name and location, maybe I'll ask Sdongerro :lol:

lol... Sdunkero doesn't even know if I even live.

Here are more posts

I'langa Mall

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Courtesy of http://www.ilangamall.co.za/

Here is a new day hospital, In the CBD and its where my former school stood more than a decade ago.

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The Lowveld Landscape just like I promised

A view from KaNyamazane townsip

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The N4 towards Malelane and Mozambique

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Close to Sodwala Caves

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Beautiful pics mate and Nelspruit is developing like crazy, puts PLK to shame, eish..

Wonderful...Post more G&D...

@Nostra, Polokwane will come on board in no time...

Brother pule i agree

How come capetonians like lydon, annman, digger, briker and big Mo never show some love fo this city.....so western cape centralized...:ohno: shame

Don't be political my friend :)

Mpumalanga Goverment Complex, The Landscape

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Beautiful! Does Nelspruit have a low crime rate?

^^ I'm afraid not, but its not as bad as the main cities.

Nelspruit is very nice, very nice Pics!

Yes Nelspruit is very nice. :)