Geography Environment Collection
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| Iron socketed sickle |
Ancient iron socketed sickle. A sickle is a curved, hand-held agricultural tool typically used for harvesting cereal crops or cutting grass for hay. |
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| Inside a home in Tin Town |
Tin Town, a poor community who lived on the banks of the uMngeni River. |
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| Indians Deported to India by the Transvaal Government |
Display at the Tongaat Legacy Foundation 150 Years |
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| Indian shack dwellers |
Shacks & Shack Dweller's Struggles in Durban ... |
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| India housing slums in Tin Town |
Tin Town, a poor community who lived on the banks of the uMngeni River. Wood and iron houses in Tin town |
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| Hurbans and Kassie Families |
Families from Tongaat |
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| Housing in Verulam |
Since Verulam became Natal's first Indian-controlled town in 1966, housing for many of the town's residents emerged as the single most pressing need. |
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| Hotel Lenasia |
Hotel in Lenasia |
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| Holding Barracks |
This barracks housed the indenture labourers before been placed with a farmer. |
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| Gopalall Hurbans |
Gopallal Hurbans was a sugar cane farmer and vice-president of the Natal Indian Congress. He was also the chairman of the Natal Vigilance Committee which protested against the Group Areas Act. |
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| Girls Interhouse Athletes Trophy | ||
| General Dealer Store |
Store in the rural outskirts |
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| Floats Andhra Celebration in Tongaat |
Float Celebration in Tongaat |
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| Flats in Phoenix |
Phoenix, some 20km northwest of central Durban, was established as township in 1976. But is said to be one of the oldest Indian settlements in South Africa, with indentured labourers from sugar cane plantations making their homes here decades ago. |
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| Fancy dress parade |
50th Anniversary in Verulam |
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| Family living in a wood and iron shack |
Big Indian family living in a wood and iron house |
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| Fairbreeze Government Indian School Staff 1962 |
Tongaat Fairbreeze Government-aided School |
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| Exhibition room |
Tongaat Exhibiton Room |
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| Event at Verulam |
50th Anniversary function at Verulam |
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| Educator cutting a cake at the 50th Anniversary in Verulam |
50th Anniversary at an event in Verulam |