Inanda is a town in KwaZulu-Natal

KwaZulu-Natal

KwaZulu-Natal is a province of South Africa. Prior to 1994, the territory now known as KwaZulu-Natal was made up of the province of Natal and the homeland of KwaZulu....

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South Africa

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 that is situated 24 km inland from Durban

Durban

Durban is the largest city in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal and the third largest city in South Africa. It forms part of the eThekwini metropolitan municipality. Durban is famous for being the busiest port in South Africa. It is also seen as one of the major centres of tourism...

 and now forms part of eThekwini

Ethekwini

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, the Greater Durban Metropolitan Municipality. Geographically, Inanda is near KwaMashu and Ntuzuma, and is well-known as the burial site of John Langalibalele Dube

John Langalibalele Dube

John Langalibalele Dube was a South African essayist, philosopher, educator, politician, publisher, editor, novelist and poet. He was the founding president of the South African Native National Congress which became the African National Congress in 1923...

, a politician and the first president of the ANC

African National Congress

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Inanda has an independent girls' secondary school called Inanda Seminary. This school was founded in 1869 by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, with Mary Kelly Edwards as its first principal; Judy Tate is the current principal. This school has received several donations which enabled it to upgrade its facilities and retain its independent status.

Inanda is extensive and subdivided into smaller townships (villages), namely Inanda Newtown A, B and C, Inanda Glebe, Amaoti, Emachobeni, etc. Inanda is also where Isaiah Shembe, the founder of the Ibandla lamaNazaretha the Nazareth Baptist Church established the original headquarters of the church, named Ekuphakameni. One section of the church continues to use this site while another hs made its headquarters at nearby Ebuhleni.

Stores like Spar, Shoprite, etc. contribute to the community. There is also an interesting place at Inanda named after John Langalibalele Dube - it is a small village called Dube. It is where MAFUKUZELA (John Langalibalele) lived. He built three schools there - the first one being Amandlakayise Primary School, the second one Langalibalele High Primary School, and the last one called Ohlange High School

Ohlange High School

Ohlange High School is a secondary school in Inanda, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It was founded in 1901 as the "Zulu Christian Industrial School" by John Langalibalele Dube . Dube had been in contact with Booker T. Washington and modeled his school after the Tuskegee University.Enrollment as of...

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This place is a tourist attraction because of its rich history about Mafukuzela, the first president of the ANC, and the founder of the first Isizulu News paper Ilanga Lasenatali. Dube Village, which is situated at Inanda, is enjoying increasing investment and development.

The Phoenix Settlement founded by Mahatma Gandhi in 1904 is also in this town(lower Inanda) and is close to Redfern Primary School and a squatter camp area called Bambayi that established in the early 80s. After being subjected to much damage and destruction during the political-apartheid riots of 1985, this settlement was reopened in February 2000 by Former President Thabo Mbeki

Thabo Mbeki

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