Inanda (KwaZulu-Natal)
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| Coordinates | 29 ° 41 ′ S , 30 ° 56 ′ E | ||
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| Country | South Africa | ||
| KwaZulu-Natal | |||
| metropolis | eThekwini | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | ZA-KZN | ||
| height | 287 m | ||
| Residents | 158,619 (2011) | ||
Inanda ( isiZulu , German roughly: 'pleasant place') is a place in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal . He is part of the metropolitan municipality eThekwini . Inanda is known as the birthplace of John Langalibalele Dube , the first President of the South African Natives National Congress and later ANC, and as the place of work of Mahatma Gandhi .
geography
In 2011 Inanda had 158,619 inhabitants. After Durban in the southeast is approximately 25 kilometers. In the vicinity are KwaMashu and Ntuzuma, further towns of eThekwini. Together they are briefly referred to as INK; INK has over half a million inhabitants and is considered a development focus because of its poverty.
Inanda is divided into smaller parts, such as Amatikwe, Newtowns A, B and C, Inanda Glebe, Amaoti, Emachobeni and Dube Village. To the west of Inanda is the Inanda Dam, which is fed by the Umgeni .
history
Inanda was originally a Boer farm in what was then the Republic of Natalia .
In 1871 the future SANNC chairman John Langalibalele Dube was born in a US mission station in Inanda. In 1903, Dube founded the newspaper Ilanga laseNatali (roughly: "The Sun of Natals") in his birthplace . He had several schools built in Ilanda that still exist today. In the Ohlange High School was Nelson Mandela in the first free elections in 1994 from his voice.
In 1904 Mahatma Gandhi, who had lived in Durban since 1893, founded the Phoenix Settlement, a village-like settlement on the northwestern edge of Inanda , from which Gandhi directed his movement of passive resistance (more precisely: Satyagraha ). Each family received two acres of land. In the settlement there was, among other things, a press house with a printing plant in which the opposition newspaper Indian Opinion was published in four languages. It existed until 1961; the press house was then converted into a clinic. Even after Gandhi's departure from South Africa in 1914, the settlement was preserved and was run for a long time by his son Manilal Gandhi and later by his widow. From the 1960s onwards, informal settlements emerged in the neighborhood , including the Bhambayi settlement around Phoenix Settlement in the early 1980s . In 1985 riots broke out there, during which many buildings of the historic settlement were destroyed. Reconstruction only began in 2000 on the initiative of President Thabo Mbeki . Today there is the Gandhi Museum and Library.
In 1910 the Zulu priest Isaiah Shembe founded the Nazareth Baptist Church , or Shembe for short , in Inanda , which was the first church in South Africa to combine Christian doctrine with traditional customs. It has split several times since then; the founding building ekuPhakameni still serves church purposes today.
Economy and Transport
Inanda is the headquarters of Inanda FM, a radio station broadcasting in English and isiZulu, which can be received throughout KwaZulu-Natal.
The Inanda Heritage Route connects the historical sites of Inanda .
Personalities
- John Langalibalele Dube (1871–1946), first President of the SANNC, born and buried in Inanda
- Pixley ka Isaka Seme (1881–1951), President of the ANC 1930–1936, born in Inanda
- Ela Gandhi (* 1940), peace activist and politician, born in the Phoenix Settlement
- Busi Mhlongo (1947–2010), singer and songwriter, born in Inanda
- Musa Manzini (* 1971), jazz musician, born in Inanda
Web links
- The Inanda Heritage Route (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b 2011 census , accessed on July 3, 2014
- ↑ History of KwaMashu , ulwaziprogramme.org (English), accessed on April 16, 2018
- ↑ INK at durban.gov.za (English), accessed on May 12, 2016
- ↑ a b c d The Inanda Heritage Route. Accessed May 17, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c d The Phoenix settlement. ulwaziprogramme.org, accessed April 16, 2018