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
