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Mariannhill
Mariannhill is a cluster of suburbs and townships south of Pinetown in eThekwini Municipality in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. In 1882, Trappist missionary Father Franz Pfanner established Mariannhill Monastery 16 km west of Durban. He promoted local development and opened schools, health clinics, craft workshops, printing presses and farms providing work for hundreds of religious workers and others. The name is derived from those of the Virgin Mary and her mother Saint Anne. The Mariannhill Toll Road, a section of the N3 national route, begins in the area. Due to its location close to the industrial townships of Pinetown and Durban, Mariannhill has attracted people from around the province of KwaZulu Natal who are seeking employment. This has led to the development and growth of several townships in Mariannhill: Mpola, Thornwood, Dassenhoek, Tshelimnyama, Mariannridge, KwaMamdekazi, St Wendolins, and others. In 1909 the St. Francis College was founded in Mariannhill, co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariannhillers
The Mariannhillers, officially named the Congregation of the Missionaries of Mariannhill (; abbreviated CMM) are a religious institute of the Catholic Church founded by Franz Pfanner. They were originally a monastery of Trappist monks founded in 1882 by Pfanner, but were later branched off as a separate congregation by decree of the Holy See. The name of the congregation comes from Mariannhill, a suburb near Pinetown in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, where the congregation was first established. History In 1882, Pfanner, then prior of Mariastern Abbey, founded a Trappist monastery in Mariannhill at the invitation of Bishop Charles-Constant Jolivet, OMI, Apostolic Vicar of Natal (later Durban). It grew rapidly and by 1885 was raised to the status of an abbey. Pfanner was elected its first abbot. It engaged in missionary work, establishing a number of mission stations where priests and brothers taught the native Zulu people to read and trained them in trades and skills such as far ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariannhill Toll Road
The Mariannhill Toll Road is a toll road in the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, forming part of the N3 national route. Opened on March 7, 1986, it was the second modern toll road project undertaken in South Africa. The road is notable for its extensive earthworks and engineering achievements, including the Umhlatuzana Viaduct. History In the 1960s, the National Transport Commission identified the need to improve the first 30 kilometres of the N3 from Durban to Pietermaritzburg to accommodate an estimated annual traffic growth of six percent. A key objective was bypassing Field's Hill, which was known for its steep grades, sharp curves, frequent traffic congestion, and poor safety record. Initially, the Stockville Valley route incorporating a tunnel at Winston Park was selected. However, due to funding constraints and escalating tunneling costs, the project was postponed and reviewed in 1977. This led to the selection of an alternative ali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinetown, KwaZulu-Natal
Pinetown is a city that forms part of the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, based just inland from Durban in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The city is situated 16 km (10 mi) north-west of Durban and 64 km (40 mi) south-east of Pietermaritzburg. Until December 2023, Pinetown (excl. New Germany) maintained a distinct vehicular identity through its "NPN” registration plate prefix, representing Natal Pinetown. History Pinetown was named after the governor of Natal, Sir Benjamin Pine. The town was established in 1850 around the Wayside Hotel, itself built in 1849 along the main wagon route between Durban and Pietermaritzburg. In the Victorian era Pinetown was known as health resort. During the Second Boer War, the British built a concentration camp in Pinetown to house Boer women and children. A number of German settlers made Pinetown their base and this accounts for the neighbourhood known as New Germany and the German Lutheran Church. Indeed, to this day imported G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Pfanner
Franz Pfanner, CMM (1825 – 24 May 1909), also anglicised as Francis Pfanner, was an Catholic Church in Austria, Austrian Catholic monk and founder of what would become the Mariannhillers. He was a member of the Trappists, from whom the new order was branched off. Pfanner founded the Mariannhill Monastery in South Africa and the Trappist Mariastern Abbey, Banja Luka, Mariastern Abbey in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He also founded the Missionary Sisters of the Precious Blood. Life Born to farmers Francis Anton and Anna Maria Fink Pfanner in 1825,Welch, Sidney. "Franz Pfanner." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 11. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911. 18 January 2023 Franz Pfanner attended high schools in Feldkirch, Vorarlberg, Feldkirch and humanistic studies at Innsbruck. Later, he stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinetown
Pinetown is a city that forms part of the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, based just inland from Durban in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The city is situated 16 km (10 mi) north-west of Durban and 64 km (40 mi) south-east of Pietermaritzburg. Until December 2023, Pinetown (excl. New Germany) maintained a distinct vehicular identity through its "NPN” registration plate prefix, representing Natal Pinetown. History Pinetown was named after the governor of Natal, Sir Benjamin Pine. The town was established in 1850 around the Wayside Hotel, itself built in 1849 along the main wagon route between Durban and Pietermaritzburg. In the Victorian era Pinetown was known as health resort. During the Second Boer War, the British built a concentration camp in Pinetown to house Boer women and children. A number of German settlers made Pinetown their base and this accounts for the neighbourhood known as New Germany and the German Lutheran Church. Indeed, to this day importe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
N3 (South Africa)
The N3 is a national route in South Africa that connects Johannesburg and Durban, respectively South Africa's largest and third-largest cities. Johannesburg is the financial and commercial heartland of South Africa, while Durban is South Africa's key port and one of the busiest ports in the Southern Hemisphere and is also a holiday destination. Durban is the port through which Johannesburg imports and exports most of its goods. As a result, the N3 is a very busy highway and has a high volume of traffic. Route The N3 is divided into 12 sections, starting with section 1 in Durban and ending with section 12 in Johannesburg. Between the two cities, the route passes the following towns and cities: Pinetown, Cato Ridge, Pietermaritzburg, Howick, Mooi River, Estcourt, Ladysmith, Van Reenen, Harrismith, Warden, Villiers, Heidelberg and Germiston. It no longer passes through most of these towns, as bypasses have been built around all of them (the N3 does not pass t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benedict Wallet Vilakazi
Benedict Wallet Vilakazi (6 January 1906 – 26 October 1947) was a South African people, South African novelist, linguist, a descendant of the Zulu royal family, and a radically innovative South African poetry, poet who created a combination of Izibongo, traditional and Romantic poetry in the Zulu language. Vilakazi was also a professor at the University of Witwatersrand, where he became the first Black South African to teach University classes to White South Africans. In 1946, Vilakazi also became the first Black South African to receive a PhD. Vilakazi Street along which the poet lived in the formerly Township (South Africa), segregated township of Soweto, is named after Benedict Vilakazi. Vilakazi Street is now very famous as the street where both Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu also once lived. Early life and education Benedict Vilakazi was born Bambatha kaMshini in 1906 at the Groutville Mission Station near KwaDukuza, KwaZulu-Natal, KwaDukuza, KwaZulu-Natal P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trappist
The Trappists, officially known as the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance (, abbreviated as OCSO) and originally named the Order of Reformed Cistercians of Our Lady of La Trappe, are a Religious order (Catholic), Catholic religious order of enclosed religious orders, cloistered Monasticism, monastics that branched off from the Cistercians. They follow the Rule of Saint Benedict and have communities of both monks and nuns that are known as Trappists and Trappistines, respectively. They are named after La Trappe Abbey, the monastery from which the movement and religious order originated. The movement began with the reforms that Abbot Armand Jean le Bouthillier de Rancé introduced in 1664, later leading to the creation of Trappist Congregation (group of houses), congregations, and eventually the formal constitution as a separate religious order in 1892. History The order takes its name from La Trappe Abbey or ''La Grande Trappe'', located in the French province of Nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EThekwini Metropolitan Municipality
The eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality () is a metropolitan municipality (South Africa), metropolitan municipality, created in 2000, that includes the city of Durban and surrounding towns. eThekwini is one of the 11 Districts of South Africa, districts of the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. As of 2011, the majority of its 3,442,361 inhabitants spoke Zulu language, isiZulu. Etymology In an 1859 Zulu grammar book, John William Colenso, Bishop Colenso asserted that the root word ' means "bay of the sea", from the name ''Mtheku'', used by the Thabethe tribes clan, who were the leaders of the Nguni people. Furthermore the original local inhabitants noted that the locative form, ', was used as a proper name for Durban. An 1895 English-Zulu dictionary translates the base word ' as "bay", "creek", "gulf" or "sinus", while a 1905 Zulu-English dictionary notes that ' is used for Durban. Geography eThekwini is surrounded by: * iLembe District Municipality, iLembe (DC29) to the nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Durban
Durban ( ; , from meaning "bay, lagoon") is the third-most populous city in South Africa, after Johannesburg and Cape Town, and the largest city in the Provinces of South Africa, province of KwaZulu-Natal. Situated on the east coast of South Africa, on the Natal Bay of the Indian Ocean, Durban is the Port of Durban, busiest port city in sub-Saharan Africa and was formerly named Port Natal. North of the harbour and city centre lies the mouth of the Umgeni River; the flat city centre rises to the hills of the Berea, Durban, Berea on the west; and to the south, running along the coast, is the Bluff, KwaZulu-Natal, Bluff. Durban is the seat of the larger eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, which spans an area of and had a population of 4.2million in 2022 South African census, 2022, making the metropolitan population one of Africa's largest on the Indian Ocean. Within the city limits, Durban's population was 595,061 in 2011 South African census, 2011. The city has a humid subtr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
