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Durban’s harbour, Berea and Bluff have a long intertwined history as we found when researching this week’s Then & Now feature.
The colonial history of the bay and Durban began on December 24, 1497, when Portuguese captain Vasco da Gama moored overnight in the lee of a headland, probably the Bluff. He named the land “Terra do Natal”.
Over several years, English and Dutch-East Indian ships sailing