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The Durban EDGE is eThekwini Municipality’s platform to provide cutting-edge economic intelligence and insight to economic decision makers. The brand was established in 2011 by the City’s Economic Development Unit. The Durban EDGE produces publications; economic info releases, as well as on-demand seminars; an annual release on the State of the Durban Economy; and topical research papers.
The Borough of Durban was granted city status. 24 February, The first electric trolley bus came into service on the Marine Parade route to phase out the old electric trams. 1938 The Fitzsimons Snake Park was opened. Although it was initially established to produce snake anti-venom, it went on to become one of the city’s most popular ...
The timeline of human habitation in Durban goes back to long before the advent of recorded history in the region. While some of the earliest remnants of humanity are found in the nearby Drakensberg, it is now established that prior to the arrival of the Nguni people and subsequent European colonialists, the area was populated by the original people of Southern Africa – now collectively ...
Durban is a port on the eastern coast of South Africa that became significant after Britain annexed the Colony of Natal in 1843. It thereafter developed into the leading commercial gateway for the Transvaal Republic. During the 1860s an Indian immigration scheme was inaugurated, mainly to provide indentured labour for the expanding sugar ...
Sep 21, 2015 · Explore the past and present of the Indian South Africans, a community that has become a major part of Durban's cultural landscape. 06:39 - Source: CNN Stories worth watching 16 videos
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Insiders and Outsiders: The Indian Working Class of Durban, 1910-1990. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 1995. xv + 132 pp. $60.00, cloth, ISBN 978-0-435-08959-7. Reviewed by Keith Tankard Published on H-SAfrica (November, 1996) Durban is a port on the eastern coast of South Africa that became significant after Britain an‐
Many of them used their position on the Durban Town Council, formed in 1854, to wield preponderant civic influence and become the driving force in the development of the town. The nature of this settler elite has been investigated in terms of the theories of social stratification, formulated along Weberian lines.
