KwaDukuza
| KwaDukuza | |||
|---|---|---|---|
|
|||
| Coordinates | 29 ° 20 ′ S , 31 ° 18 ′ E | ||
| Basic data | |||
| Country | South Africa | ||
| KwaZulu-Natal | |||
| District | iLembe | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | ZA-KZN | ||
| local community | KwaDukuza | ||
| height | 101 m | ||
| surface | 630 km² | ||
| Residents | 51,536 (2011) | ||
| density | 81.8 Ew. / km² | ||
| founding | 1820 | ||
| Website | www.kwadukuza.gov.za (English) | ||
 Shaka's tomb in KwaDukuza
|
|||
KwaDukuza (formerly Stanger ) is a city in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal , about 60 kilometers north of Durban and 7 kilometers from the Indian Ocean. It is the capital of the iLembe district . In 2011 it had 51,536 inhabitants. KwaDukuza is located at an altitude of 101 meters above sea level.
history
The place was founded in 1820 by the Zulu King Shaka as KwaDukuza ( isiZulu for "place of the lost person"). In 1828, Shaka was murdered by his half-brother Dingane , and the city was subsequently burned to the ground.
In 1873, European settlers built the town of Stanger on this site. In 1998 the place got its original name back. The first African Nobel Peace Prize winner , Albert John Luthuli , is buried here. One of the sights is the tomb of Shaka.
Indian contract workers have settled here since the second half of the 19th century, primarily for agricultural operations .
Transport and economy
The Kearsney – Stanger Light Railway was a 12.8 km long narrow gauge railway between Kearsney Manor and the station of KwaDukuza. It was inaugurated on January 2, 1901 and operated until around 1944. Today KwaDukuza is a railway junction and the center of sugar cane production in this region.
Town twinning
-
Swakopmund (since 2013)
Web links
- The community site (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ statssa.gov.za , Statistivs South Africa. Retrieved February 10, 2016.
- ^ Stanger data from Falling Rain Genomics, accessed August 29, 2011.
- ^ New town twinning with KwaDukuza. Allgemeine Zeitung, March 13, 2014. Retrieved March 14, 2014