There is plenty more interesting information in the text and one of them is where the names of towns like KwaMashu and Clairwood originated. KwaMashu was named after sugarcane farmer Marshall Campbell, who introduced rickshaws to Durban. With Clairwood, it was previously Clairmont but changed to avoid confusion with the other Claremont in Cape Town.
He notes interesting facts about who built the beachfront Amphitheatre between 1933 and 1934.
Two similar books Hughes has produced are;
The Paintings of The Bay of Natal: A Selection of Works Dating From 1845 to 1982, published in 2001, and
Views in Colonial Natal: A Select Catalogue Raisonne of Southern African Paintings of Cathcart William Methven (1849 -1925).
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