Durban an Overview
… of land in the area immediately surrounding the bay of Durban. Initially settlement about the bay was haphazard, but … from the Cape, who, in 1839 proclaimed it, as well as Durban, the Republic of Natalia. This did not entirely meet … the colony’s first Lientenant-Govenor, the population of Durban, or Port Natal as it was also known, had risen to …