The group was founded in 1993 when a number of entrepreneurs including investor, and Chief Executive Officer of the SNG Group Mr. Saantha Naidu acquired a holiday apartment building on Durban’s Golden Mile, the Coastlands Durban Hotel and Self Catering apartments. During 2007, the SNG group identified an Area in Musgrave to develop upmarket Residential Apartments, however during the construction phase it was decided to adapt this building according to the requirements of a Hotel, which then opened as a four star graded Hotel in November 2009.
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Adam Small
Born:
21 December 1936
in Wellington, Cape Province (now Western Cape)
Died:
25 June 2016
Professor Adam Small was born on 21 December 1936 in Wellington, Cape Province (now Western Cape) to a mother of Muslim Indian heritage and a slave descendant father. He grew up in a village called Goree after his family moved there a few years after he was born, where his father was a teacher at a primary school.
The first functional Hospital in Durban: "The Bayside Hospital", was situated on the Victoria Embankment at the site now occupied by the Supreme Court. In 1879, the new Government Hospital was built at the present site and named after Rt. Hon. Henry Addington who held the post of Prime Minister of Great Britain in 1801. Addington Hospital is a District and Regional Hospital with 471 beds and 2 200 staff, situated on South Beach, Durban. Hence the name: "Bayside Hospital".
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Part of the Cape Fold Belt, the Langkloof Valley and Mountains are a short range of Mountains that serve as a link between the Tsitsikamma and Outeniqua Mountains. In the Valley below is an Area that stretches for some 160 kilometres that is ideal for growing fruit, particularly apples and pears, but there are other varieties as well.
Dotted in amongst the fruit trees of fruit Farms in the Area, are a selection of little Town: Haarlem, Avontuur, Misgund, Joubertina, Kareedouw, Louterwater, Krakeel and Assegaaibos,(most of which lie on Route 62).
Melmoth, known as the gateway to the Zulu Highlands, is a picturesque, little Town just 200 km North East of Durban and 90 km from the Coastal Town of Mtunzini. Referred to, in the SA edition of Trivial Pursuit, as having the cleanest air in the country, Melmoth was a ‘gold rush’ town, founded in 1888 and named after Sir Melmoth Osborn, the resident commissioner of Zululand at the time.
Uniondale lies adjacent to the Langkloof, which winds its way through the foothills of the of the Tsitsikamma Mountain range in an Area renowned for its scenic drives. Uniondale came into being when the two towns of Hopedale and Lyon became one in 1856. Uniondale was originally famous for its wagon building and ostrich feather industries but these faded over time leaving a quaint Farming Community whose principle production is sheep, goats, seeds and apples.
Crowds scatter up Darling Street as police fire teargas on the Grand Parade. 9 September 1976
Crowds scatter up Darling Street as police fire teargas on the Grand Parade. 9 September 1976
Langa High pupils march in August 1976
Langa High pupils march in August 1976
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Walter Kefuoe Fikeleph Chakela
Born:
13 April 1953
in Vryburg, Transvaal (now North West Province)
Died:
15 May 2020
Walter Kefuoe Fikelephi Chakela was a revered playwright and poet born on 13 April 1953 in Vryburg, a small, conservative Afrikaner town in Transvaal (now North West Province). His father, Augustine Tjato ‘Chateau’ Chakela, was a travelling agricultural inspection officer and a captivating storyteller who found an eager listener in his son.
