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Tours

Midlands Tour

This tour takes you to Pietermaritzburg, where you will visit the Gandhi statue, the railway station where he was thrown off a train in 1893, and the Nelson Mandela Capture Site in Howick. Also included is the Horse Shoe Bend which has various exclusive tourist retail activities.

The statue of Mahatma Gandhi

The statue is a commemoration of the centenary of his enforced removal from the train on 7 June 1893. The statue depicts him in his traditional dhoti, with a staff in one hand while the other reaches out in peace. The statue was unveiled in 1993 by Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

Pietermaritzburg Railway Station

The Pietermaritzburg Railway Station opened on the 1st of December 1880, connecting Durban to Pietermaritzburg. On the night of 7 June 1893, Mahatma Gandhi was thrown off a train at the Pietermaritzburg Railway Station for protesting segregation laws.

Nelson Mandela Capture Site

Nelson Mandela was arrested on 5 August 1962 outside Howick, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He spent the next 27 years of his life in prison. The Nelson Mandela Capture Site commemorates this moment in history with a visitor Centre.

Horse Shoe Bend

Exclusive retail experiences in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands.

UKZN Pietermaritzburg Campus Library: Special Collections and Archives Tour

Our libraries have deep roots in history, dating back to significant moments in the development of education, literature, or science. The collections offers a wealth of information about the past and providing resources for current and future scholarship. These archives and special collections may include rare books, personal papers of notable figures, records of important events, and specialized material.

The Cecil Renaud Library

 

Dr Léon Cecil Mapleson Renaud, was born in 1904 in Durban, South Africa and educated at Durban High School. He was also a successful sugar farmer in KwaZulu-Natal and a philanthropist. Passionate about education, he made significant donations to Natal University, now UKZN, as well as other secondary and tertiary institutions in KZN. The Cecil Renaud Library on the Pietermaritzburg campus was named after him.

Alan Paton Centre & Struggle Archives

The Centre began shortly after Alan Paton’s death in 1988, when his widow, Mrs Anne Paton, donated the contents of his study to the former University of Natal. His study has been recreated at the APC, and contains most of his books, journals, awards and memorabilia. Core donations of manuscripts were made, including Alan Paton’s papers, his poetry and short story manuscripts and his correspondence. Alan Paton is most famous as the author of the world-renowned novel, Cry, the beloved Country, written in 1946.

The Centre for African Literary Studies (CALS)

The Centre for African Literary Studies (CALS) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), South Africa, was launched in September 2004 at the Pietermaritzburg campus. The vision of the Centre is to develop African Studies as an interdisciplinary program, thus positioning the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) on the path to becoming the “Premier University of African Scholarship” and the “University of First Choice” in African Studies.

University Archives

The material at the University Archives reveals the origin and development of the University from 1910 when the Natal University College (NUC) was established, through the years of the former University of Natal (1949-2003), to the present-day University of KwaZulu-Natal. The University of Natal merged with the University of Durban-Westville to form the University of KwaZulu-Natal. The collection covers Pietermaritzburg, Westville, Howard College, Medical School and Edgewood campuses.

Post Conference Tour (Optional)

This is a limited-seats tour post the AI conference, taking you to Durban’s historical museums to learn about the rich history of Durban and KwaZulu-Natal.

Please note that this tour incurs a charge as it is not part of the AI conference package. In the event there is not sufficient interest, the tour will be cancelled.

Gandhi Luthuli Documentation Centre

The Mission of the Centre:

To support the research and academic needs of the University students and faculty and to serve as a focus for public programs of interest to the campus and wider KwaZulu community.

Killie Campbell Collections

The collections of the Education Policy Unit (Natal) and the Centre for Education Policy Development (CEPD) were donated to the Library. This collection is made up of books, journal articles, legislation, parliamentary minutes and conference proceedings on all aspects of education and education policy issues. Also part of the collection is a collection of publications from the International Institute for Education Planning (IIEP) in Paris.The collection also includes audio and video recordings, charts, transparencies, policy documents, maps, models and slides, and technical reports.

KwaMuhle Museum

The KwaMuhle Museum was originally the offices of the native administration Department, a central cog in the machinery of apartheid and the center of Durban’s harsh system of labour control. It is a fitting irony that the museum now displays reconstructions of the oppressive environments experienced by the black population of South Africa under apartheid, offering a window into the harsh realities of the period.