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Pandurang Shastri Athavale (19 October 1920 – 25 October 2003), also known as Dada /Dadaji ("elder brother"), was an Indian activist, philosopher, spiritual leader, social revolutionary, [2] and religion reformist, who founded the Swadhyaya Parivar (Swadhyaya family) in 1954. [3]
Pietermaritzburg City Hall found on a photo album dated 1924. The city was occupied by Voortrekkers, in April 1838 following the murder of Piet Retief and his seventy-strong party at the Zulu Capital, Mgungundlovu (6 February 1838), when seeking land to settle around Port Natal (The Natal-Land Treaty), and from where the reprisal Wenkommando departed (November 1838) to defeat Dingane at the ...
Mahatma Gandhi is a bronze statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Church Street, Pietermaritzburg, depicting the Indian independence campaigner and nonviolent pacifist as a young man. [1] [2] The statue was unveiled in 1993 by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, marking the centenary since Gandhi was thrown from a train at Pietermaritzburg railway station. [3]
Menelik Nesta Gibbons (born on the 3rd April 1987), known professionally as Don Dada is a Zimbabwean born South African hip hop & reggae artist, record producer, entrepreneur, radio personality, disc jockey, founder and co-owner of Ruff Cutt Studio and Afrika Connect Holdings situated in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Shankar Trimbak Dharmadhikari (18 June 1899 – 1 December 1985; Hindi pronunciation: [ʃə̃kəɾ t̪ɾɪmbək d̪ʱəɾmaːd̪ɪkaːɾiː]), better known as Dada Dharmadhikari, was an Indian freedom fighter, and a leader of social reform movements in India. He was a strong adherent of Mahatma Gandhi's principles. His eldest daughter (Usha ...
The Witness (previously The Natal Witness) is a daily newspaper published in Pietermaritzburg. It mainly serves readers in Pietermaritzburg, Durban and the inland areas of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is the oldest continuously published newspaper in South Africa, having first been published on 27 February 1846.
The entire NGK confirmed membership shrunk from 953,000 in 1985 to 766,000 in 2015, around a 12% drop, but the numbers in the Pietermaritzburg area went down by 59%, from 4,491 to 1,858, during the same period. By 2013, Pietermaritzburg's numbers had reached 1,660.
St Saviour's Church, Pietermaritzburg. St Saviour's Cathedral was the home of the Anglican Diocese of Natal in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa from 1868 [1] until its deconsecration in 1976: it was demolished in 1981. [2]