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The small steamer Sir Robert Peel, first mail steamship to enter the harbour at Durban. She crossed the bar successfully on the 15th August 1852.

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The term 'murder' used in Boer War grave North of Natal

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Maritzburg College

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Barrack Room- For Napier 

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De Natalier, the first Natal newspaper 

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Gandhi standing outside his hut at Phoenix Settlement, during the first passive resistance struggle initiated in 1906 to protest against racial discrimination against Indians. Phoenix, together with the Tolstoy Farm in Johannesburg, (a donation from Mr.

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The memorial to honour the first 34 settlers of New Germany who landed in Durban on the 28th of March 1848

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The memorial to honour the first 34 settlers of New Germany who landed in Durban on the 28th of March 1848

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The memorial to honour the first 34 settlers of New Germany who landed in Durban on the 28th of March 1848

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The memorial to honour the first 34 settlers of New Germany who landed in Durban on the 28th of March 1848

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The old cemetery, New Germany 

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Cornelis Moll (1815-80) was the twenty-fourth child of his parents. Set up as a printer in Cape Town but eventually became insolvent. In 1844 he came to Natal bringing with him his printing press.

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This dilapidated building with peeling plaster and narrow windows was constructed in the early 1840s as the Supreme or High Court of the district of Natal. It was dark, badly ventilated, stifling hot in summer, and deadly cold in winter.

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Post Office: Pietermaritzburg

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G. S. Preller

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Government House- Maritzburg

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No photograph of its interior exists but this contemporary sketch shows the layout of its furniture. On the right-hand side is the layout of its furniture.

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Henry Cloete (1792-1870) was the first Recorder of Natal and very learned in Roman-Dutch law as used in Natal. The British government regarded him highly because of his services to them in conducting a kind of census of all the original farms granted to the Voortrekkers between 1839 and 1843.

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Sambuca Buchanan

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Charlotte Evelyn Shepstone was born 29 March 1869

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