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Fun Fact: A slave Bell in Company’s Gardens, Cape Town

20 July 2022 by Alan

A “Durban Botanical Gardens” image from Flickr – click on the name of the photographer below to see more Durban goodness and to thank the photographer.

A slave Bell in Company’s Gardens, Cape Town
Photo by Robert Cutts

Durban Botanical Gardens

It’s very similar to the one in Durban Botanical Gardens – and to probably many more scattered across the country.


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Quick Durban KwaZulu-Natal Fact: Durbanites have their own lingo – If you hear something like, “Ek se, it’s cold, I’m vaaing posie to catch a dop”, don’t be alarmed. Durban has its own slang that ranges from a mishmash of local expressions to derivatives of Afrikaans and Zulu. In fact we think it’d be pretty “kiff” if you learnt some too.


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