KwaZulu Post

The City of Durban: the history, present and future  By Nomfundo Cele Durban has a rich history, which can be found in the KwaMuhle Museum. KwaMuhle Museum is located on Bram Fischer Road in Durban and showcases the history of Durban and its people. The historical building was initially a native affairs office or native administration department during the apartheid era in South Africa. The native affairs or native administration department was tasked with finding black people jobs and issuing them with a document called a dompass, which permitted black people to work and stay in Durban. Khetha Sithole, a curator at KwaMuhle Museum, said that people who came to the building during the segregation or apartheid era were faced with difficult conditions when they came to look for jobs in the native administration department. "When black people came here looking for a job, they would first be given a 3-day waiting period in which they would stay outside the building like cattle waiting

By Hajira Langa Along with seeding plants and trees that have stood the test of time, this year the Durban Botanic Garden will celebrate 174 years of existence. Since its founding in 1849, the garden rich in history has played a vital role in the city’s life. The Durban Botanical garden is situated in Durban Berea on the East of Kwa-Zulu-Natal. The garden has  indigenous and exotic plants that  promote a very rich teaching and learning to better understand the world of plants.  According to environmentalist Christine Sol the garden was established as early as 1849 by the Natal Agricultural and Horticultural society.  The garden began as a vegetable, fruit and other agricultural produce farming, and has since evolved into a significant botanical station, gaining local and international acclaim for its research, plant collection , educational outreach, and efforts to connect people with plants and nature.   ‘The Botanical garden is a 15 hectare garden, what we have at the botanica

Traditionalist believe that there are two different kinds of worlds, the world of flesh and the world of spirit. It is with a belief that when a person passes on their spirit leaves their bodies but the spirit lives forever. A person who has got ancestral spirit imimoya yabantu abadala that person is known to be spiritually gifted which means that they have been possessed with the ancestral spirits. This is not something that you can just get anyhow the gift is attached to you long before you are born but it tends to appear at a later stage when long after being born. Amagobongo this is one of the journey that one has to undergo when they are possessed with the ancestral spirits. When a person takes this journey it is because of the connection the ancestors want to have with that certain person. Not everyone gets to undergo this journey as not everyone is spiritually gifted. Anele Ndlovu shares how she found out that she has to undergo the journey of amagobongo. “I had dreams,