Once a Court House and now a Museum it is the oldest public building in the central business district and was loop-holed during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. It bore witness to both the South African Wars and the Bhambatha Uprising. More recently it also served as a canteen and recruitment centre during the two … Read more
I am standing in God’s country. While I know that I have used that powerful phrase before to describe the gorgeous landscape that surrounds Durban, this time I am being more literal, for the bright green field from which I am staring up at the blue heavens is part of the Marianhill Monastery.Less than a … Read more
Contents 1 History of St Wendolin’s: 1914-1945 1.1 First World War 1914-1918 1.2 Spanish Influenza Epidemic 1918-1919 1.3 Cultural Conflict 1.4 Peoples Bank and Agricultural Show 1.5 Land Act 1913 and Freehold Titles 1.6 Storm of October, 1939 1.7 Education 1928-1961 1.8 Priests at St. Wendolin’s Church 1.9 Second World War 1939-1945 1.10 References History of St Wendolin’s: … Read more
Contents 1 Founding of Mariannhill Monastry 2 Mariannhill School 3 Chief Manzini’s Land Request 4 St Wendolin’s – First Outstation- 1895 5 Mariannhill Christian Villages 6 Settler Opposition to Mariannhill Villages 7 St Wendolin’s Church 1896 8 Tenant Contracts 9 Religious Missionaries of Mariannhill 10 References Founding of Mariannhill Monastry Father Francis Pfanner, an Austrian … Read more
Mzinyathi Falls is a beautiful place situated at Ebuhleni, Inanda. The waterfall of Mzinyathi is used by Baptist Nazareth Church (Shembe) for their baptism purposes. The waterfall is surrounded by a lot of indigenous trees which date back 100 years, the Fall is also home to a small Rastafarian community living in a cave. Mzinyathi Falls … Read more
The Victoria street market in Durban is a rich historical site that reflects the struggles of a poor community striving for their own identity and a burning need to make ends to meet to survive in new pasture market currently stands strong in the central business district of Durban, and is an epic in the … Read more