The town of Triangle is so named because when Murray MacDougall first tried to grow sugar cane, only three pieces of sugar cane grew, He said he could only do one thing with them and that was to make a triangle.

Sugar cane was first planted in the region in 1931 by Thomas Murray McDougall and was first processed in 1939.

Due to the economic decline the country is going through, like at Hippo Valley, production of sugar has fallen in recent years.

[1] At formation of the Sugar Estates, much of the labour to work the land was brought in from neighbouring Malawi and Zambia.

As a result of intermarriages between the local Karanga, Shangaan and the plantation workers who were predominantly foreigners, this has resulted in the mix of ethnicities and cultures in Triangle and the Southern districts of Zimbabwe.