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Cinder City Shellhole is a military veterans' club located in Port Shepstone, KwaZulu-Natal. It was established in 1946, shortly after the end of World War II, as a meeting place for ex-servicemen. The term 'Shellhole' is used by the Memorable Order of Tin Hats (MOTH), a South African veterans' organization founded in 1927, to denote local branches or meeting points. The name 'Cinder City' likely refers to the town's historical association with the sugar industry and railway infrastructure, where cinders (ash from coal-burning locomotives) were common. Port Shepstone itself was founded in 1867 and developed as a port for the sugar and timber industries.

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