[3] After around 400 CE, there is evidence that communities who farmed crops, forged metal and kept livestock (while still hunting and gathering) were living in wider region.

[7] Before the 1960s, Kabokweni was known as Ngodini, meaning "the hole" in SiSwati in reference to the fact that it is under a watershed, some lay 1000 feet below the nearby town of White River.

In preparation for the making of a residential township for people who would commute to work in White River and Nelspruit, the apartheid government forced existing residents off the land into centralized "betterment" villages in surrounding areas.

[2] The name "Kabokweni" is the Siswati adaptation of Charles Borquin's surname, the Bantu Affairs Commissioner who was responsible for relocating people to the township from White River.

[2] In the 1980s, conditions in KaNgwane were harsh, with many reporting to the Surplus People Project the difficulties of life with access to little land, the loss of livestock, a scarcity of drinking water and other basic services, few opportunities and high levels of violence.

The Elijah Mango College of Higher Education, an institution established when Kabokweni was under KaNgwane, has become severely dilapidated, facing government neglect, and theft and vandalism in recent years.

The local Mpumalanga Department of Agriculture, Rural Development, Land and Environmental Affairs has more recently promised to revive the facility.

Once a year, around November-December, Aggressive animals from Kruger national park are donated to towns as celebration to upcoming Christmas events.

During the national census of 2011 the 8.24 km2 town housed an estimated 21,905 inhabitants, of which 98,3% were Black South Africans with 82% speaking siSwati as their home language.

Other activities such as Netball, Rugby, Tennis, Bush hunting, Swimming, Volleyball, Running, Cycling, Drag Racing, Hiking and Long jump are common in Kabokweni.

Underground music has been a key product for some artist to make money in clubs as Dj's or Producers for Gqom, Amapiano, Deep House and Slow Jam.

Other plays of entertainment are Car Drifting shows that were lawfully stopped due to complaints of not binding to safety rules during this events.

Stressed out civilians are given cannabis infused with other herbs to a drink called "IMBITA" during crises in order to avoid suicide ratings and this helps them increase their appetite.

Some healers prefer taking individuals on a bush journey so that they can toughen their spriritualism and open their communication process with their Ancestors in terms of mental situations.

Christians prefer water and fasting periods to heal patients, though this process takes much patience and time consuming, the results are way better than Sangoma's roots.

Jesus Christ is celebrated, as he represent a symbol of unity, trust and Faith around Kabokweni with a concept that claims that we are all Brothers and Sisters of this Nation.

Pot-holes have been a dramatical issue to drivers and this increases local road labor for unemployed people trying to support the government in return for employment.