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Ixopo

Ixopo is famous as the setting for the opening of Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country. {mosmap|lat=’-30.154510’|lon=’30.064899”} from Cry, the Beloved Country (1948) There

Gillespie Street

Gillespie Street and the surrounding bars was the setting for Johan van Wyk’s autobiography Man Bitch as well as Zazah P. Kuzwayo book Never

The Beachfront

Durban’s beachfront, or ‘the golden mile’ as it is popularly known, was the setting for much of Lewis Nkosi’s novel Mating Birds. from Mating

Cato Manor

Cato Manor was an informal, multiracial settlement on the outskirts of Durban. It was razed to the ground by the Apartheid government due to

Grey Street

Grey Street is home to Durban’s Indian district. Here, you will find the Juma Musjid Mosque and its gilt-domed minarets, the largest mosque in

Sezela

With characteristic generosity, Campbell urged Plomer to move into the bungalow at Sezela and become a joint editor of Voorslag: We … can put

Mkhuze

Near Mkuze Game Reserve is the Ghost Mountain. "It’s a great and strange mountain. It is haunted also and named the Ghost Mountain," wrote

Ulundi

When Cetshwayo became king of the Zulus on 1 September 1873 he created, as was customary, a new capital for the nation. This place

Ladysmith

The Anglo-Boer War made Ladysmith a household name. The 120day siege of the town, lasting from 2 November 1899 to 28 February 1900, so

Babanango

Babanango is the name of a hill, a stream and a district in Zululand and there are many versions of how the name came

Pietermaritzburg

The Voortrekkers had a good eye for town sites. After their defeat of the Zulus at the end of 1838 the trekkers selected farms

Eshowe

On the crest of a ridge of hills, 500 metres above sea level, is a forest known to the Zulus as Dlinza (‘a gravelike


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Literary Tourism is tourism that deals with places and events from fictional texts as well as the lives of their authors. This could include following the route a fictional character charts in a novel, visiting particular settings from a story or tracking down the haunts of a novelist.

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