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	Port Edward, KwaZulu-Natal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Port Edward is a small resort town situated on the south coast of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, near the Eastern Cape Province border.
		The coastline between here and Port Shepstone to the north is popularly known as the Hibiscus Coast because of its lush sub-tropical gardens.
		In 1831 there was a crisis between the settlers in Port Natal (Durban) and Dingane, the Zulu king.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Port_Edward,_KwaZulu-Natal (325 words)

	Durban - LoveToKnow 1911
		The early history of Durban is closely identified with that of the colony of Natal.
		1810-1893), one of the earliest settlers in Natal.
		The discovery of the gold-mines on the Rand greatly increased the importance of the port, and renewed efforts were made to remove the bar which obstructed the entrance to the bay.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Durban (1152 words)

	natal - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Natal (South Africa), former province in eastern South Africa, located on the Indian Ocean.
		Natal (Brazil), city in northeastern Brazil, capital of Rio Grande do Norte State, at the mouth of the Potengi River near the Atlantic coast.
		Natal Grass, short-lived perennial or annual of the grass family, native to South Africa.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/searchdetail.aspx?q=natal&pg=1&grp=art (221 words)

	Durban - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Durban is famous as the busiest port in South Africa and a centre of tourism due to the city's warm climate and beaches.
		The Port of Durban, which was formally known as the Port of Natal, is one of the few natural harbours between Port Elizabeth and Maputo, and is also located at the beginning of a particular weather phenomenon which can cause extremely violent seas.
		The Port of Durban is now the busiest port in South Africa, as well as the busiest container port in the Southern Hemisphere.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Durban (2602 words)

	Zululand EcoAdventures - John Dunn
		I was during that time that John Dunn was born at Port Natal and he would have been one of the first white settlers to have been born in the frontier settlement.It is important to remember that Dunn grew up in a white settlement that did not become a colony until 1843.
		Port Natal was a semi-independent white enclave beyond British imperial Conrail and it was much more vital for the traders to maintain friendly economic and political relations with the Zulus Kingdom and the local African populace.The white traders readily adapted to African social and cultural norms.
		Natal's African population was territorially politically and socially segregated white society.Against his background of ever tightening colonial rule and the insistence that white colonists conform to white standards of conduct.
	www.eshowe.com /article/articlestatic/57/1/18 (1635 words)

	Natal - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Its port is important in the handling of coastal shipping and in the export of tungsten.
		Natal and breeding philopatry in a Black Brant, Branta bernicla nigricans, metapopulation.
		Bullets before ballots: on the eve of South Africa's historic vote, a crackdown in Natal.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/n/natal.asp (348 words)

	The History of KwaZulu-Natal
		In Natal the first settlement on the shores of Durban Bay was established in 1824 when two Englishmen, Lieutenants Farewell and King, obtained a grant of land from the Zulu king Shaka.
		The settlers at the port were then able to commence the trade in ivory, skins and gum which was the beginning of the great commercial city of Durban.
		Dick King, an English trader at the port escaped from Port Natal, and rode to Grahamstown for reinforcements.
	users.iafrica.com /a/au/aug/YEP/hist.htm (3519 words)

	Durban
		Africa's principal port and South Africa's principal holiday destination, with miles of beautiful beaches and hundreds of other activities and attractions, this is definitely holiday country, with a thriving commercial and industrial economy.
		On Christmas Day 1497 Vasco da Gama first landed here, and named the harbour Rio de Natal (Christmas River) in the mistaken belief that it was a lagoon at the mouth of a river, which was later changed to Port Natal by others who discovered Da Gama's mistake.
		Most of the province of Natal is populated by the Zulu people and Durban has a strong infusion of tribal citizens.
	www.places.co.za /html/durban.html (359 words)

	Durban History
		The settlement of Port Natal encompassed just 30 people (others were in trading, the hinterland and hunting) and was renamed “Durban” in 23 June 1835 in honour of Cape Governor, Sir Benjamin D'Urban as proclaimed by Captain Allen Gardiner, the newly arrived naval officer.
		Natal was regarded by the Zulus as their own territory and merely tolerated the white settlers, because of the usefulness the port was as a trading centre to them.
		After Durban was evacuated during a Zulu raid, the Boers declared control, renaming it Port Natal even though it was reoccupied by a British force later that year, but the Boers stood by their claim.
	www.durban-car-hire.co.za /durban-history.htm (914 words)

	Natal (South Africa) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In 1845 Natal was annexed to the Cape Colony, but it was reestablished as a separate colony in 1856.
		Natal gained limited self-government in 1893, and four years later Zululand was officially incorporated into the colony.
		Natal was invaded by Afrikaners in 1899 at the outbreak of the
	autocww.colorado.edu /~blackmon/E64ContentFiles/AfricanHistory/Natal.html (405 words)

	About Port St Johns, central to the Wild Coast
		Port St. Johns, the largest town on the Wild Coast, is set at the point between the tropical weather systems of Natal and the temperate southern weather of the Cape Province.
		Port St Johns’ weather station records indicate a mean annual rainfall of some 1250mm with a monthly average of 100-160mm falling in the summer months, September to April.
		The Dick King Memorial in Port St Johns commemorates the historic ride of Dick King, who rode from the 1000 kilometers from Port Natal (Durban) to Grahamstown in 1842 to get help from the British garrison there when Port Natal was besieged by the Boers.
	www.portstjohns.com /psj.php (1073 words)

	KwaZulu-Natal travel guide - Wikitravel
		The Afrikaners trekked from the Cape and entered the region from the west.
		The English arrived at Port Natal (Durban) in the east.
		The Indian population grew quickly and by the 1890s outnumbered the whites in Natal.
	wikitravel.org /en/KwaZulu-Natal (1402 words)

	Francis Farewell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lieutenant Francis George Farewell (1784-1829), the father of the Port Natal Colony in South Africa was born at Holbrook House near Wincanton in the Vale of Blackmore in 1784.
		Their ship was caught in a storm in the Indian Ocean, but they managed to reach the shores of Natal, it was there they met with the Zulus.
		Farewell was at Port Natal, when in 1829 there was unrest and in an ambush, Farewell and a few men were killed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francis_Farewell (416 words)

	Durban - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Durban is the main port for the Witwatersrand and is connected by railroad with Johannesburg and other cities on the Rand.
		The city, first called Port Natal by the British, was renamed Durban in 1835 after Sir Benjamin D'Urban, then governor of Cape Colony.
		Durban is the seat of the Univ. of Natal, Durban (1909), the Univ. of Durban-Westville (1960), and Natal College for Advanced Technical Education (1907).
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/D/Durban.asp (494 words)

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		On this occasion the authorities were more hostile than before to the Natal pioneers, for they confiscated the schooner on the ground that it was unregistered and that it came from a foreign port.
		When the Whites in Port Natal received intelligence of this shocking occurrence and the news of approach of a large body of Dingaan's men they were most concerned.
		The map of Port Natal dated 1842 (see next image) shows the WOOD's home to be 1/8 mile (200 metre) east of the southern tip of the bottom of the 'Knuckle' in the hill.
	home.yebo.co.za /~salbu/aWood/AnnalsOfNatal_Wood3.html (2798 words)

	B&B Press Release 1
		The great natural harbour of Port Natal, on whose shores stands the city of Durban, was considered by the Portuguese navigators of the 15th century to be a lagoon at the mouth of a large river which flowed down from the interior.
		Natal was open to British settlers and free to develop into a separate colony and ultimately a province of South Africa.
		The 4-kilometre bush-covered ridge which provides the land-locked harbour of Port Natal with its southern arm is known as the Bluff, or to the Zulus as isiBubulungu ('the long bulky thing').
	www.byeways.co.za /Durban.htm (3487 words)

	Kwazulu Natal In Focus
		The region lies between the Drakensberg Mountains and Swaziland to the west; the Indian Ocean to the east stretching from Port Edward in the south to the Mozambique border in the north.
		Port Natal is today known to most as Durban -and to locals as "Durbs".
		To the northeast of KwaZulu Natal is the Greater St Lucia Wetland Park, which stretches along a 280 km coastline from Cape St Lucia to Kozi Bay near the Mozambique border.
	www.africapoint.com /Newsletters/Kwazulu-Natal/index.htm (2442 words)

	FIFA.com The Official web site of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association
		At the heart of this province’s coastline is Durban, Africa’s busiest port city, and part of the Ethekwini Municipal Metropolitan.
		He mistook the lagoon for a river and named it Rio de Natal (Christmas River) but it was later corrected and changed to Port Natal.
		Port Natal became Durban on 23 June 1835, in honour of Cape Governor, Sir Benjamin D'Urban.
	www.fifa.com /en/PrinterFriendly/0,3875,durbanfwc1-WF-2010,00.html (446 words)

	The Slaying of Piet Retief - Brief History of South Africa
		A fortnight after our arrival, the English at Port Natal came to the determination of attacking Dingaan, and avenging the deaths of Thomas Halstead and George Biggar, who had formed part of Retief's party, and who were their particular friends; and for this purpose immediate preparations were made accordingly.
		When we who were at Port Natal received intelligence of this shocking occurrence, we kept a sharp look-out, and had our spies on every hill, one of whom at length brought us information of the near approach of a large body of Dingaan's men, who seemed to take their time, and did not travel quickly.
		Only eight or nine of us remained at Port Natal, the others thinking fit to proceed with the "Comet" to De Ia Goa Bay, whither she was bound, and from thence to the Cape in the same vessel.
	www.southafrica-travel.net /history/wood.htm (3818 words)

	RSA-Overseas - The Expat Portal: City of Durban
		The Port of Natal soon bacame valued as a place for the vessels to seek shelter and rest on the shore; as the indiginous population were friendly.
		The first South African railway (1860) and the efforts to dredge the harbour (end of century) accelerated development; and today Durban is the 3rd largest city in South Africa, and the 3rd busiest harbour on the continent.
		In the 1860's it was found that the Zulu people indigenous to Natal were unwilling to work on the newly-established sugar plantations.
	www.rsa-overseas.com /tutorial/dbn.htm (393 words)

	Fishing the Natal Coast
		During June and July each year, these little fish make their appearance along the eastern seaboard where Natal's coast stretches from the Umtamvuna River in the south to the Tugela River and the Zululand boundary in the north.
		It is this stretch of coastline that has cradled the desire to fish for many a South African, for along this stretch lies the holiday playground for most residents of the hinterland cities in the Gauteng region.
		As a whaling port until the early '60s, a large number of sharks followed the whale carcasses as they were tawed into port by whale boats.
	www.places.co.za /html/natalfish.html (843 words)

	KwaDukuza, KwaZulu-Natal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After Shaka's assassination in a coup by two of his half-brothers, Dingane and Umthlangana (Mhlangane), on September 24, 1828, the town was burnt to the ground.
		India sponsored indentured labourers to South Africa as the Zulus were not inclined to farm labour.
		The first few hundreds of Indian families departed northwards from Port Natal to the cane farms that applied for them, on 17 November 1860.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/KwaDukuza,_KwaZulu-Natal (479 words)

	The Colony of Natal - South African History
		In 1835, Port Natal was renamed Durban after the then Governor of the Cape Colony, Sir Benjamin Durban.
		The Zulus regarded Natal as their own territory and merely tolerated the white settlers, because the port was useful to them as a trading post.
		When the Voortrekkers came to Natal in 1836, and fierce battles with the Zulus were on the daily agenda, Durban was also frequently threatened by attacks.
	www.southafrica-travel.net /history/eh_natal.htm (355 words)

	SeaView Government School
		Passengers were towed into port in a lighter, and carried to shore on the back of a native, as no landing stages or wharves then existed.
		Although Durban was originally founded as a port to trade with the people of KwaZulu-Natal it was fortuitous that gold was discovered in Gauteng (previously known as the Transvaal) in 1886 and it served as a port for the ever increasing population of the hinterland.
		The construction of the Maydon Wharf in 1905 increased the capacity of the port still further and the dry dock which was installed shortly thereafter added a further dimension to the port.
	home.mweb.co.za /sa/salbu/SeaView.html (3241 words)

	Fynn and Southey Families - pafg37 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Frank Fynn [Parents] was born in 1808 in Cape Province, South Africa.
		She died on 18 Oct 1896 in ogleton, Ixopo, Natal.
		He was buried in Nsandhlundhlu Ridge, Port Edward, Natal.
	www.members.tripod.com /paul_tannertremaine/fynn/pafg37.htm (176 words)

	NORWEGIAN EMIGRATION - THE DEBORA EXPEDITION
		The expedition was aborted in Madagascar - a few of the participants remained in Madagascar and the rest settled in the British colony of Port Natal (Durban).
		A Durban group of survivors of the Norwegians who came to Natal on the Deborah, taken on the 50th anniversary of the schooner's arrival in Port Natal.
		Armistice Day is an anniversary of double interest to the Norwegian community in Natal, for it was on November 11, 1879, that the first Norwegian emigrants came to Port Natal.
	www.geocities.com /aldabra.geo/home.html (1284 words)

	The William Wood Book_ANNALS OF NATAL, STATEMENTS RESPECTING DINGAAN, KING OF THE ZULUS
		He, probably came to Natal with Collis in October 1831 for he was employed as a carpenter and assistant by Collis at Port Natal until Collis's death there In September 1835.
		He attended the meeting held at Port Natal on 23 June 1835, to plan the town of Durban and build a church; and he signed the petition of the same date to Sir B. D'Urban, asking that Natal be made a British colony.
		He was brother to Richard Wood and uncle to the younger William Wood, served on both the settlers' commandos against the Zulus, March and April 1838, and was killed at the Battle of the Tugela, 15 April 1838.
	home.yebo.co.za /~salbu/aWood/AnnalsOfNatal_Wood2.html (1159 words)

	event
		Natal Inland head the other men's section just one ahead of Eastern Districts with Gauteng North and KwaZulu-Natal another point behind that.
		Port Natal may not find Southern Free State their cup of tea and Central Gauteng should not have any trouble taking all five points from Vaal Bowls which may upset the run of play from Port Natal who could be keeping an eye on that game too.
		Natal Inland, something of an unknown entity, play Eastern Districts in what should be the decider of their section, with only one point separating them after eight rounds but sitting waiting for either to slip are Gauteng North and KwaZulu-Natal.
	www.dispatch.co.za /2003/03/14/sport/EVENT.HTM (354 words)

	Upper Wild Coast links from portstjohns.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		in the north to Port Edward in the south is ideal for surfskis and sea kayaks,...
		Port Edward is the southernmost town on the South Coast, bounded by the...
		Natal KwaZulu-Natal is a verdant and green province, which forms the east coast of South Africa from Port Edward northwards to the Mozambique...
	www.portstjohns.com /links/natal_portedward.php (3850 words)

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