Durban City Hall

Umhlaba Ungowethu

Ngenkathi uMasipala weTheku uqamba kabusha imigwaqo yawo eminingi eminyakeni embalwa edlule, omunye wemigwaqo emikhulu yedolobha washintshwa ukuba u-West Street waba u-Dr Pixley KaSeme Street. Ikheli le- Durban City Hall, isakhiwo esinomlando nesibalulekile ngokwenhlangano yenkululeko, lishintshile ngenxa yalokho. Ukuqanjwa kabusha kuka-West Street mhlawumbe kwaba olunye lwezinguquko ezibaluleke kakhulu ezenziwayo futhi kukhomba iqhaza elibalulekile uKaSeme alibamba emlandweni … Read more

I-Durban City Hall izolungiswa kabusha

I-Durban City Hall isakhiwo esidala ethekwini, saqeda ukwakhiwa ngo-1910. Lesi sakhiwo sadwetshwa (designed) isazi sokwakha (architect) uStanley Hudson ngonyaka ka-1903 esisusela kumfanekiso weBelfast City Hall eyaphuthulwa ngo-1906 eNorthern Ireland. Isakhiwo esiyigugu eThekwini iCity Hall kulindeleke ukuba silungiswe kabusha ngemuva kweminyaka ewu-110 sabakhona. Lesi sakhiwo sidlala indawo ebalulekile yokuphathwa kwedolobha iTheku, siphinde sibe yindawo yehhovisi leMeya … Read more

The Land is Ours

Salt March 2014

When eThekwini Municipality renamed a number of its roads a few years back, one of the city’s main arterial roads was changed from West Street to Dr Pixley KaSeme Street. The address of the Durban City Hall, a historic building and important site in terms of the liberation movement, changed as as result. The renaming of West … Read more

I-Durban City Hall: Ibhilidi elinomlando onothile (source: Amandla Durban)

source: Amandla Durban Ukwakhiwa kwalesi sakhiwo kwaphothukwa cishe eminyakeni eyikhulu edlule futhi ngenxa yalokhu ukube siwumuntu ngabe siwufakazi oqanda ikhanda wawo wonke umlando weTheku nowezwe lonke, njengoba iNingizimu Afrika iqale ngokuba ngamakoloni amane aseBhrithani yadlulela ekubeni yiNingizimu Afrika eBumbeno (Union of South Africa) kwaze kwafika lesi sikhathi lapho isiyiRiphabhlikhi yaseNingizimu Afrika. Belikhona leli hholo izwe … Read more

I-Durban City Hall: Ibhilidi elinomlando onothile

Plate 2. – Unknown family at Mariannhill Studio, approx. 1900. [Mariannhill Mission Archives].

Ukwakhiwa kwalesi sakhiwo kwaphothukwa cishe eminyakeni eyikhulu edlule futhi ngenxa yalokhu ukube siwumuntu ngabe siwufakazi oqanda ikhanda wawo wonke umlando weTheku nowezwe lonke, njengoba iNingizimu Afrika iqale ngokuba ngamakoloni amane aseBhrithani yadlulela ekubeni yiNingizimu Afrika eBumbeno (Union of South Africa) kwaze kwafika lesi sikhathi lapho isiyiRiphabhlikhi yaseNingizimu Afrika. Belikhona leli hholo izwe lisabuswa ngamaNgisi, laba … Read more