Mpophomeni is a town in Umgungundlovu District Municipality in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.

In 1968 the South African government built in an open field a township called Mpophomeni to relocate the black people living in the surroundings of Howick, a picturesque little town in the Natal Midlands.

[2] In the late 1980s and early 1990s there was a fight between the community of Mpophomeni and the people living in the rural areas of Kwa Shifu, Haza and Mashingeni.

The community of Mpophomeni were ANC (African National Congress)supporters and the rural areas were strongly behind the opposing IFP (Inkatha Freedom Party).

A memorial was built in remembrance of this and named after Nokulunga Gumede - the youngest victim of the violence as well as commemorating the 120 people that died.