Buy house in historic town
Shaka died here, Luthuli was born here and so was SA’S sugar industry
A LARGE property in the historic KZN town of Kwadukuza (Stanger) is among the properties in the province on offer from Omniland Auctioneers this week.
On Tuesday at 11am, Omniland will sell a deceased estate home on site. It is at 15 North Street, Kwadukuza Ext 6, about 75kms north of Durban, and has parquet-floored lounge and dining room, carpeted bedrooms with air-con, a bathroom, and covered carport. There is also a three-bedroom cottage with lounge, kitchen, and bathroom on the stand of over 1 000m².
Kwadukuza is rich in South African history. King Shaka Zulu died here, Chief Albert Luthuli lived here, and it’s the birthplace of the country’s sugarcane industry.
Shaka’s half-brothers, Dingane and Mhlanga, assassinated him at his capital, Dukuza, in 1828 and buried him in a grain pit nearby. Among Kwadukuza’s tourist attractions are lofty cliffs from which Shaka threw his enemies in acts of execution.
The Albert Luthuli Museum opened in Kwadukuza in 2004 in his house. In 1960 he became Africa’s first Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. He was born near Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, in 1898 but after the death of his father, the family returned to their ancestral home in what was then Stanger in 1908. Luthuli was president-general of the ANC from December 1952 until his death in 1967.
The first sugarcane to be planted in South Africa was harvested in a small sugar mill on a farm outside Stanger by farmer Edward Morewood in 1848. Sugarcane (called umoba) had been grown by the Zulus but the industry only began in earnest when Morewood opened his mill. Successors included Sir James Hulett who had moved to SA from England.
Stanger – founded in 1873 – was named after William Stanger, first Surveyor-general of Natal. Kwadukuza, the town’s name since 2006, means “place of the lost person”.
Omniland will on Wednesday at 11am on site auction a large family home in Pietermaritzburg. The dwelling at 2 Aspen Lane on a 500m² plot is described by Omniland as “a renovator’s dream”.
For full details about the KZN properties on offer from the company this week, call 012 804 2978 or 082 960 1881 or visit www.omniland.co.za. APRIL 08 2018