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Durban has a natural harbour, Port of Durban, which is the busiest port in South Africa and the fourth-busiest in the Southern Hemisphere. The extent of urban sprawl the Greater Durban agglomeration has experienced, virtually adjoining surrounding smaller towns, has made boundaries in the metropolitan area quite complicated.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Durban in the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
1965 Durban rail accident; 1973 Durban strikes; 1999 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting; 2002 Charlotte's Dale train collision; 2011 United Nations Climate Change Conference; 2019 Durban Easter floods
The Natal Railway Company's initial rolling stock consisted of six wagons, two travelling cranes and one passenger coach. By 25 January 1867 the line had been extended a further 3.5 mi (5.6 km) to Umgeni, from where stone, quarried from the Umgeni River, was transported to the harbour.
The 1973 Durban strikes are widely cited by academics as a turning point in South Africa's industrial relations system as it gave rise to the black trade union movement [10] [3] [2] [11] and was a major step forward in the struggle to build a mass democratic opposition to apartheid which played a central role in the struggle for the ...
History of Durban (2 C, 20 P) M. Mass media in Durban (1 C, 9 P) ... Durban Point (House of Assembly of South Africa constituency) Durban United Hebrew Congregation;
On 4 October 1965, during the Apartheid in South Africa, a passenger train of the South African Railways with up to 1500 black commuters onboard derailed, killing 87 of them. As ‘revenge’ the passengers lynched a signalman and beat up another railwayman. Thousands of local black people came together in a protest march towards the disaster ...
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