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Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal
9 April 2026
Durban is South Africa’s third-largest City and one of the fastest-growing urban Areas in the World. Construction work o...
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Cato Manor, Durban
23 April 2025
Cato Manor was established in Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) and is situated 5km west of the Durban city centre.
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Indenture: A new system of slavery?
15 March 2024
Was the system of indentured Indian labour "a new system of slavery"?as Hugh Tinker entitles his book? The answer would ...
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Natal Indian Congress (NIC)
1 March 2024
The NIC (Natal Indian Congress) was the first of the Indian Congresses to be formed. It was established in 1894 by Mahat...
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Indian South Africans
9 February 2024
From bondage to freedom - The 160th anniversary of the arrival of Indian workers in South Africa The feature on...
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Grey Street Complex
7 February 2024
Grey Street is the teaming business and residential Indian sector of the Durban City Centre, and is also the educational...
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uMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
8 January 2024
On 16 December, 1961, Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) was launched as an armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). The...
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Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC)
5 August 2021
The TIC (Transvaal Indian congress) was first called the TBIA (Transvaal British Indian Association) which was founded i...
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Ship list of Indian Indentured Labourers
13 July 2021
Approximately 152,184 indentured Indians arrived under the scheme of indenture making a total of 384 trips. Th...
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Treason Trial 1956 - 1961
5 July 2021
For some time there had always been a question in peoples' minds as to why the government had allowed the Congress of th...
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Chatsworth, Suburb of Durban
18 November 2020
Chatsworth is a historically Indian township located in Durban some 14km south-west of the City centre, in the Umhlatuza...
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A history of Indians in South Africa Timeline: 1654-2008
29 July 2020
This is a collection of timelines of Indians in South Africa from 1654 until 2008.
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Indian South Africans timeline 1940-1949
16 April 2020
Indian South Africans Timeline: 1940-1949 1940 January, A meeting is held between the Nationalist Bloc, Transvaal ...
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Anti-Indian Legislation
27 August 2019
Towards the end of the nineteenth century, Harry Escombe became one of the most prominent White politicians in the Colon...
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South African Indian Congress (SAIC)
27 August 2019
The period 1860-1923 is characterised firstly by the introduction of indentured Indian labourers into Natal and of the "...
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Defiance Campaign 1952
27 August 2019
The post-1948 period saw the African National Congress (ANC) abandoning its traditional reliance on tactics of moderatio...
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Pass laws in South Africa 1800-1994
27 August 2019
Slaves at the Cape were forced to carry passes. This made it easier for their owners and the local authorities to contro...
