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Long-awaited release of scholar transport policy in KZN a victory, say education activists: Learners with disabilities attending public schools are included in the KZN education and transport departments’ Learner Transport Policy.
Ambassador A.Sidoruk visits Richards Bay: Ambassador Alexander Sidoruk paid a working visit to Richards Bay (KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa), where he took part in the presentation …
New Covid strain declared ‘Variant of Concern’ by World Health Organisation: A new strain of Covid-19 has been declared a Variant of Interest by the World Health Organisation. The variant named Mu, or B.1.621, was first identified in Columbia earlier this year and has now been …
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Quick Durban KwaZulu-Natal Fact: Cato Manor in Durban once attracted attention from around the world because it was where rioting broke out in 1959 in protest against the city’s beerhalls and the looming prospect of mass forced removals in which the residents would be uprooted from their homes in terms of the notorious Group Areas Act, and resettled in townships. The area was granted to George Christopher Cato in 1865, perhaps as a reward for his years of community service and for the fact that, in 1854, he had become Durban’s first Mayor. The land was sub-divided in the early 1900s and leased to Indian market gardeners, many of whom were either former indentured labourers, who had come to South Africa to work on the sugar plantations, or their descendents.
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