Cato Ridge

Cato Ridge
	Cato Ridge
	Cato Ridge
Coordinates	29 ° 44 ′ S , 30 ° 35 ′ E Coordinates: 29 ° 44 ′ S , 30 ° 35 ′ E
Basic data
Country	South Africa
province	KwaZulu-Natal
metropolis	eThekwini
ISO 3166-2	ZA-KZN
height	764 m
Residents	3874 (2011)

Cato Ridge is a place in the metropolitan municipality eThekwini in the province of KwaZulu-Natal of South Africa , which is about 50 km west of Durban and 30 km east of Pietermaritzburg on the main road between these two cities. At Cato Ridge which rises Sterkspruit , located in the dam Nshongweni Dam with the Umlaas (also Mlazi ) combined.

The place is named after George Christopher Cato (1814-1893), the first mayor of Durban. Georgedale, a district of Cato Ridge, is the birthplace of James Mpanza , who became known as the Father of Soweto .

Cato Ridge is on the N3 trunk road and on the main railway line Pietermaritzburg – Durban . This was put into operation on October 1, 1880 by Natal Government Railways and initially only ran to Camperdown , continuous operation to Pietermaritzburg began two months later on December 1 of the same year. In 1921, a new route was put into operation between Cato Ridge and Rossburgh , which, in contrast to the old one, had a maximum gradient of 15 ‰ instead of 33 ‰. Cato Ridge is the terminus of the Metrorail Durban trains on the new main line to Durban .

Cato Ridge is the site of a smelter of African Rainbow Minerals , which began operations in 1959. In it , ferromanganese is produced from manganese ore that comes from mines in the North Cape province .

Individual evidence

^ Raper: Dictionary of Southern African Place Names . Ed .: Human Science Research Council. 2014, ISBN 978-1-86842-549-5 , pp. 113 .
^ Raper: New dictionary of South African biography . Ed .: EJ Verwey. 1st edition. tape 1 . Human Science Research Council, Pretoria 1995, ISBN 0-7969-1648-9 , pp. 113 .
↑ Bruno Martin: Map of Main Line Durban – Pietermaritzburg. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: Umgeni Steam Railway . September 2005, archived from the original on March 10, 2016 ; accessed on October 12, 2014 (English).
^ Cato Ridge Works. (No longer available online.) Assmang, archived from the original on February 19, 2016 ; accessed on February 18, 2016 .

[1] Raper: Dictionary of Southern African Place Names . Ed .: Human Science Research Council. 2014, ISBN 978-1-86842-549-5 , pp. 113 .

[2] Raper: New dictionary of South African biography . Ed .: EJ Verwey. 1st edition. tape 1 . Human Science Research Council, Pretoria 1995, ISBN 0-7969-1648-9 , pp. 113 .

[3] Bruno Martin: Map of Main Line Durban – Pietermaritzburg. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: Umgeni Steam Railway . September 2005, archived from the original on March 10, 2016 ; accessed on October 12, 2014 (English).

[4] Cato Ridge Works. (No longer available online.) Assmang, archived from the original on February 19, 2016 ; accessed on February 18, 2016 .