Ngqeleni is a town in OR Tambo District Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.
Village in West Pondoland, 32 km southeast of Umtata and about 40 km north-north-west of Coffee Bay. The name is derived from the Xhosa ngqele, âÂÂcoldâ or âÂÂfrostâÂÂ. Coldstream, which flows past it, may have a name translated from Ngqeleni, âÂÂat the coldâÂÂ."