Mbona Private Nature Reserve

General information

Mbona Private Nature Reserve is an oasis of peace, tranquility and security situated in the Karkloof Hills approximately 30 km north of Howick in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands. It comprises 700 hectares of land at the interface of mist-belt grassland and indigenous forest.There are 100 homes on Mbona scattered across the Reserve connected by 28 kilometres of gravel roads. The houses do not conform to any particular design style and are set in up to 1 acre of private garden per share. Each has a unique outlook and while some are situated amongst grassland and overlook one or more of the trout dams or Lake Crystal, others are tucked into the indigenous forest or look out over the Midlands towards Albert Falls dam.

Mbona has been established for almost 50 years. It was the brainchild of Eric MacKenzie who owned the land and had experienced a similar concept in the USA. Many of the shares are still owned by the original shareholders or their families.