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September 3, 2017. Dyer Island, Western Cape. Great white shark. Xelela was swimming with a group of poachers to Dyer Island to poach abalone. He was swimming a few meters in front of the group when a shark grabbed him, pulled him underwater, and resurfaced with him in its jaws. The group swam away, and Xelela's body was later retrieved by a ...
Durban ( / ˈdɜːrbən / DUR-bən; Zulu: eThekwini, from itheku meaning "bay, lagoon") [a] is the third-most populous city in South Africa, after Johannesburg and Cape Town, and the largest city in the province of KwaZulu-Natal. Situated on the east coast of South Africa, on the Natal Bay of the Indian Ocean, Durban is South Africa's busiest ...
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 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 democratisation of society.
John Robert Dunn. John Robert Dunn (1834 – 5 August 1895) was a South African settler, hunter, and diplomat of British descent. Born in Port Alfred in 1834, he spent his childhood in Port Natal /Durban. [1] : 24 He was orphaned as a teenager, and lived in native dress on the land near the Tugela River. His conversance with Zulu customs and ...
R400,000 (2020) 1st: R250,000. The Gold Cup is a Grade 3 thoroughbred horse race run over 3200m at Greyville Racecourse in Durban, South Africa. The first running of the race took place in 1920 however it was not run in 1942. The race is considered "Africa’s premier marathon for long-distance runners." [1] The race historically takes place on ...
26 June: Natal Railway (Market Square-Customs Point) begins operating in Durban. [1] Indian workers begin to arrive in Durban. [4] 1863 - Population: approximately 5,000 (3,390 white, 1,380 black and 230 Asian). [6] 1865 - Sites for Albert Park and Victoria Park established. [7] 1866 - Durban High School was founded.
It is a religious building that follows the Roman or Latin rite and functions as the headquarters of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Durban ( Archidioecesis Durbaniana) which was created in 1951 with the bull "Suprema Nobis" of Pope Pius XII . It was built to replace an old church dedicated to St. Joseph who had been in use since 1881.
The Cenotaph was erected in Farewell Square, Durban, South Africa, as a war memorial to soldiers who died in World War I . Standing about 11 metres (36 feet) high, the Cenotaph is built out of granite decorated with glazed ceramic tiles depicting two angels raising the soul of a dead soldier. The vivid color of the figurative decoration makes ...