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Durban has built a brand new R200 million cruise terminal that has been in operation since October 2019, the Durban Cruise Terminal. The tender was awarded to KwaZulu Cruise Terminal (Pty) Ltd, which is 70% owned by MSC Cruises SA and 30% by Africa Armada Consortium.
Durban City Hall is a historic city hall located at Durban in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. History. The building was designed by architect Stanley G. Hudson and ...
1870 - Durban Fire Department founded. [6] 1880 - Magazine Barracks built. 1882 - Durban High School for Girls was founded. 1885 - Town Hall built. [6] 1887 - Durban Girls' College was founded. 1888 - Lord's cricket ground established. 1889 - Natal cricket team formed. 1896 - Population: 31,877. [7] 1899 - Maris Stella School was founded.
The Bluff promonotory is a remnant of an extensive coastal dune system that formed along the shoreline of KwaZulu-Natal between two and five million years ago. [2] It is situated just south of the Durban CBD and plays a key role in shielding the Port of Durban from the Indian Ocean, forming the port’s southern quayside.
Durban is a rapidly growing urban area and is by most measures the busiest port in Africa. [20] A good railway network links the city to other areas of Southern Africa. Sugar refining is Durban's main industry. Sheep, cattle, dairy, citrus fruits, corn, sorghum, cotton, bananas, and pineapples are also raised. There is an embryonic KwaZulu ...
In 1927 the Durban North Estates Company, a property development company, bought a large tract of land north of the Umgeni River known as the Prospect Hall Sugar Estate. [2] Plans were laid out for the development of the land into a residential suburb, and roads were built, beginning with Northway, to be the main arterial through the new suburb ...
Phoenix is a South African town about 25 kilometres (15 mi) northwest of Durban Central, in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It was established as a town by the apartheid government in 1976, but it has a long history of Indian occupation. It is associated with the Phoenix Settlement, built by Mahatma Gandhi. [2]
Chatsworth is a large township in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa established in the 1950s to segregate the Indian population and create a buffer between the white suburbs of Durban to the north and the black townships of Durban to the south.