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Durban North Commando Group 10

The unit was primarily tasked in quelling township riots, and resorted under the command of the SADF's Natal Command. During the State of Emergency in the 1980s, this commando was tasked with protecting strategic facilities. S.B. Bourquin held the position of a Commandant at the Commando Group 10.

Interviews with Mewa Ramgobin

Transcripts of interviews, conducted by Iain Edwards for the 'Memoir Project', also including introduction and political background.

Mahatma and Kasturba Gandhi

Including Mahatma Gandhi Centenary Memorial, 1969; Indian Opinion Kasturba Gandhi Memorial Number, 22 March 1944; Supplement to The Natal Mercury newspaper, about 'Gandhi's flight from Durban mob', 22 May 1934 (extremely fragile and torn).

Notes on the Ecological History of the St. Lucia Lake and Environs

Notes on the Ecological History of the St. Lucia Lake and Environs, by W.D. Wearne, Technical Officer, Natal Parks, Game and Fish Preservation Board. Edited, revised and with summary by P.G. Stewart. For St. Lucia Lake Commission of Inquiry, September 1965.

Photographs numbered Photo 1-23, were taken between the 1920s-1960s, and are describing amongst others:
High tide below 'Angler's Arms'; the 'Sugar loaf' Mapelana; Rev. L.O. Feyling's donkey wagon crossing the lake at 'Ndlelanendlovu'; 'Ndlelanendlovu' crossing from Mt. Tabor Mission Station; Trigsurvey Photo No. 54738 of Job 117 of 1937, Umfolozi river flowing into Estuary; Trigsurvey Photo No. 9370 of Job 400 of 1957 at Umfolozi river; Trigsurvey Photo No. 2271 of Job 442 of 1960; towing boat by oxen wagon through the Mapelana forest; from 'Ndleleanendlovu' crossing to the Estuary township; dead and dying fish at Estuary; view up the Narrows from the 'Angler's arms' site; Estuary mouth taken from 'Long Island'; Msunduzi river, south of Estuary.
Also included two maps, numbered 2 and 3 (map no. 1 is missing):
'Plan of township and farms laid out by Boers in the neighbourhood of St. Lucia Bay, 1883-84';
'Natal Harbour Dept. Zululand coast surveys. Survey of mouth of Umfelosi river and entrance to St. Lucia Lake, January 1905'

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