St Wendolin’s: 1945-1996

Contents 1 History of St. Wendolin’s: 1945-1996. 1.1 Post War Mariannhill 1.2 Marianhill Health Board 1.3 Bantu Education Act 1954 1.4 Group Areas Act 1957-1967 1.5 Housing 1.6 Labour Strikes 1971-1974 1.7 Pinetown Community Council 1.8 Creches 1.9 Forced Removals 1.10 Unrest at St. Wendolin’s 1980s 1.11 Suspension of Services 1.12 Upgrading of Facilities 1991- … Read more

Nazareth Temples

Nazareth Baptist Church (Shembe) have temples where people gather to worship and pray. Their worship day is on Saturday they call it Sabbath. It is also a place where anyone with a problem  can come to deliver it to God in order to be solved. Nazareth temples are built on the mountains, because the King Mvimbeni … Read more

St Wendolin’s: 1914-1945

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

The festival of firewalking

Throughout their more than 140 years of residence in South Africa religion has certainly been the most powerful establishing force in the Hindu community. Wherever they settled, shrines and temples were built helping them maintain awareness of their heritage, although most of these settlers were uneducated, they had deep inherited knowledge of their religious practices, … Read more

St Wendolin’s: 1882-1914

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

Ubuntu

Ubuntu, (pronounced|ùbúntú), is an ethic or humanist philosophy focusing on people’s allegiances and relations with each other. The word has its origin in the Bantu languages of Southern Africa. Ubuntu is seen as a traditional African concept. Contents 1 Meaning 2 Change in South Africa 3 Zimbabwe 4 Rwanda and Burundi 5 Uganda and Tanzania … Read more