74-568: Adams College is a historic Christian mission school in South Africa, associated with the United Congregational Church of Southern Africa (UCCSA). It was founded in 1853 at Amanzimtoti a settlement just over 20 miles (32 km) south of Durban by an American missionary. The settlement there is known as Adams Mission . The college's alumni include Presidents of Botswana and Uganda, several ministers and leaders of
148-558: A 25-bed clinic, Netcare Kingsway Hospital is the sole hospital serving the town of Amanzimtoti. Owned by Netcare Limited , it is now a 238-bed private hospital operating 24-hour emergency services. The hospital is located on Kingsway, just 2 km from Galleria Mall and 3 km from the Amanzimtoti CBD. Amanzimtoti Clinic is a government-funded municipal clinic operated by the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality , catering to residents' healthcare needs. The Amanzimtoti Railway Station
222-473: A Zulu Bible but he had stayed there and he had become a physician. He was the first Black South African to do this and for a while taught physiology at the college. In 1924 Z.K. Matthews was appointed to be the first black head of Adams College where the activist Albert Luthuli was already a teacher. Both of them were active in politics and Matthews was later to be the Botswana Ambassador to
296-639: A brake-van. There was a tin shanty siding at Amanzimtoti in 1897 which served as a station. The route from the Amanzimtoti train station to Adams Mission was named Adams Road. The first hotel in Amanzimtoti was built in 1898 to cater for holidaymakers, some of whom came from as far afield as Johannesburg on specially organised trains. The first hotel was built of wood and iron, but burnt down in May 1899. Amanzimtoti had its first stationmaster in 1902. In 1902 Mrs K. Swafton visited Amanzimtoti and reported that
370-425: A mount a coral tree proper within an orle of eleven coral flowers also proper (i.e. a coral tree surrounded by eleven coral flowers on a background of silver and blue wavy stripes). The crest was an egret standing in a circle of coral flowers, and the motto Nitamur semper ad optima . Jackie Grant George Copeland " Jackie " Grant (9 May 1907 – 26 October 1978) was a West Indian cricketer who captained
444-474: A photograph shows a boat race held on the lagoon. The Amanzimtoti River was navigable for 3.5 miles by rowing boat. In the 1920s, a steam train , the Port Shepstone Express , passed through the town once a day, to and from Durban. At around this time there was a Zulu kraal where the original Amanzimtoti Primary School was later built. One of the bathing areas in the sea for holiday-makers
518-575: A result, tourism is a major part of the local economy mainly attracting local tourists during the summer seasonal period. The annual sardine run also attracts many to the Toti beaches. With its laid-back beach lifestyle, Amanzimtoti has become an attractive destination for commuters, retired people and holidaymakers alike. Today it is described as a bedroom community , one which is primarily residential in character, with many of its residents commuting to Durban daily. Initially established in 1982 as
592-403: A river. When drinking the water, he exclaimed "Kanti amanzi amtoti" ( isiZulu : "So the water is sweet"). The river came to be known as Amanzimtoti ("Sweet Waters"). The Zulu word for "sweet" is actually mnandi , but, as Shaka's mother had the name Nandi, he invented the word mtoti to replace mnandi out of respect not to wear out her name. Locals frequently refer to the town as "Toti". In 2009
666-520: A shopping complex and a 25-storey block of flats, which to this day can accommodate 1,500 people. Amanzimtoti made international news when on 23 December 1985, during the peak of the Christmas shopping season, Umkhonto we Sizwe cadre Andrew Sibusiso Zondo detonated a bomb in a rubbish bin at the Sanlam shopping centre during an armed struggle. Five people (two women and three children) were killed in
740-494: A teacher, with the intention of returning to Queen's Royal College to teach. He played first-class cricket for the university , and gained Blues in cricket and soccer. He also met a fellow student, Ida Russell from Southern Rhodesia , daughter of Sir Fraser Russell , and they became engaged at Cambridge and later married. A middle-order batsman and occasional fast-medium bowler, Grant played one first-class match for Cambridge University in 1928, then established himself in
814-631: Is a coastal town just south of Durban in KwaZulu-Natal , South Africa . Situated along the Sapphire Coast, the town is well known for its warm climate and numerous beaches , and is a popular tourist destination, particularly with surfers. According to local legend, when the Zulu king Shaka led his army down the south coast on a raid against the Pondos in 1828, he rested on the banks of
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#1732797320466888-751: Is called Adams Mission and it had a population of 600 in 2001. In 2007 Adams College was amongst several schools recognised as "historic schools". Funding of six million rand a year was earmarked for Adams, Ohlange High School , Inkamana High School , Inanda Seminary School and Vryheid Comprehensive High School to make them academies focussing on Maths, Science and Technology. Anglican Archbishop Emeritus Njongonkulu Ndungane said that they still needed funds and "little has been achieved since democracy". 30°01′52″S 30°49′04″E / 30.031042°S 30.817777°E / -30.031042; 30.817777 Amanzimtoti Amanzimtoti , locally nicknamed Toti , and officially renamed to eManzimtoti ,
962-435: Is now Ohlange High School and Adams were involved with a move to return music to its ethnic roots. The move to a traditionalist approach was backed by John Dube who was at Ohlange and Brookes who was the headmaster here. Esau Fika Mthethwea who was a teacher formed the "Lucky Stars" in 1929 as an ethnic vaudeville troupe of typically eight young teachers who had been trained at Adams. Esau died in 1933 but others took over and
1036-572: Is situated on the South Coast Line, which is the main Metrorail commuter route between Durban in the north-east (via Umbogintwini ) and Kelso in the south-west (via Kingsburgh ). Amanzimtoti is mainly reached via the N2 , a major freeway running between Durban in the north and Port Shepstone in the south. Furthermore, it can also be reached from Kingsburgh and Athlone Park via
1110-914: The African National Congress . It is recognised as a historic school. It has been called Adams School, Amanzimtoti Institute and the Amanzimtoti Zulu Training School. The school was founded in 1853 by the Reverend David Rood, missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions . The school was located on the glebe of the Amanzimtoti mission and was initially named the Amanzimtoti Institute . Rood had arrived in Natal 20 January 1848 and subsequently established
1184-416: The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions sent Rev. Rood to Amanzimtoti in 1853 with the express object of opening up a school. Adams Mission Church was built inland of Amanzimtoti in 1852, and Adams College was built in 1853. The college was first named "Amanzimtoti Institute" and was later renamed after Dr. Adams in the 1930s. Different accounts identify the first colonial-era house in
1258-822: The Pipeline Coastal Park . The Amanzimtoti Country Club is an 18-hole golf course situated on the mouth of the uMbokodweni River in Athlone Park , north of eManzimtoti. Amanzimtoti was a borough in its own right from 1952 to 1996. It obtained a coat of arms from the College of Arms in November 1958, and registered it with the Natal Provincial Administration in April 1959. The arms were : Barry wavy Argent and Azure, on
1332-652: The R102 (Kingsway; renamed to Andrew Zondo Road) which is the old coastal main route between Durban and Port Shepstone and via the M37 (Moss Kolnik Drive) from KwaMakhutha in the west. Amanzimtoti functions as a service-orientated town being a hub for shopping and other services for surrounding communities south of Durban . There are two main retail nodes in the town including the Amanzimtoti Central Business District (CBD) and Arbour Town to
1406-536: The South Coast SUN , which Archie and Jenny Taylor started in 1970. in 1961, the nearby settlements of Isipingo Rail and Isipingo Beach, which lie to the north of Amanzimtoti, were incorporated into the Borough of Amanzimtoti, up until July 1972, when Isipingo gained its own Town Board. Toti's largest building, then known as Sanlam Centre , was constructed during 1972 to 1973. It originally consisted of
1480-873: The West Indies in Test cricket between 1930 and 1935. He was later a missionary in South Africa and Rhodesia . Appointed to the Test captaincy at the age of 23, Grant led the West Indies team on its first tour of Australia in 1930–31, and later to its first series victory, when it beat England in 1934–35. Grant went on to be a teacher in Southern Rhodesia , Trinidad and Tobago and Grenada , and inspector of schools in Zanzibar . From 1949 to 1956 he
1554-400: The 1930s was the arrival of Gracie Fields , a popular singer at the time. Electricity was introduced to the town in 1938, after being voted in by a small majority after Alan Allen campaigned on the benefits of electricity. Telephone lines were installed in 1945, and the manually-operated telephone-exchange was located at the railway station. Running water was introduced in 1949 by Olaf Bjorseth,
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#17327973204661628-591: The 1930s. As "Jackie" Grant he had captained the West Indies Cricket team for four tests before becoming a missionary teacher in 1939. When Grant arrived Ohlange High School already had an established team. Grant raised the status of the game around Durban and made Adams the centre of this new school sport. Cricket was the sport popular with the Indian immigrants to South Africa and the local Durban Indian Cricket Union dated from 1894. The mission station
1702-401: The 1931-32 Currie Cup under the captaincy of Hamish Campbell-Rodger , helping the team to finish a close second in the competition. He played his first first-class match in the West Indies in 1932-33, when he led one of the sides in a match to help select the team to tour England later that year. The 1933 tour of England was another unsuccessful tour. Of the three Tests England won two and
1776-542: The 1950s when Beach Road was widened and tarred. The first newspapers to be produced in the town were attributed to Ivor language, and the first issue of The Observer was printed in July 1955. Before this, newspapers had been brought in by train from Durban. From 1957 to 1959, The Observer was replaced by a commercial weekly newspaper, the South Coast Courier . The Observer was again replaced, this time by
1850-481: The Amanzimtoti area on his way to Grahamstown in 1842 in order to request help for the besieged British garrison at Port Natal (now the Old Fort, Durban ). The route that Dick King took through Amanzimtoti later became a road named Kingsway. In 1847 Dr Newton Adams moved from Umlazi (where he had established a mission station in 1836) to Amanzimtoti and started a new mission station. Dr Adams died in 1851, and
1924-531: The Amanzimtoti area, with one reference claiming a house on the south side of the Amanzimtoti River as the oldest house and another claiming a house to the north of the river as the oldest. The "first house" in Amanzimtoti, known as Klein Frystaat ("Little Free State "), was owned by Howard Wright and was situated "on the north side of the back of the old Anglican Church" on Adams Road. The house
1998-566: The Australian cricket historian A. G. Moyes , because they "played cricket as though it was great fun – seriously enough but with gaiety mixed with gravity". Grant led the team's Test batting averages with 255 runs at 42.30, including 53 not out and 71 not out in the Second Test. He was the first player in Test cricket to score two unbeaten fifties in the same match. While teaching in Southern Rhodesia , Grant played for Rhodesia in
2072-532: The British Colonial Education Service from 1944 to 1949, including a period as Inspector of Schools, but he and his wife found it difficult to live in a predominantly Muslim country where there was little scope for the kind of Christian work they wanted to do. He accepted an offer of the position of Principalship of Adams College near Durban , where he began work early in 1949. Between 1933 and 1945 Adams College had become one of
2146-587: The First Test, on a rain-affected pitch where all the batsmen struggled, Grant declared the second innings at 51 for 6, setting England 73 to win in the hope that the state of the pitch would defeat the English team, but they won with six wickets down after being 48 for 6. West Indies won the Second and Fourth Tests, thus winning a series for the first time. When Grant had to leave the field with an injury late in
2220-524: The Fourth Test he asked Constantine to captain the side in his absence, and Constantine led the team to victory. Despite this success, Grant retired from international cricket after the series, aged 27. He decided that there were things he wanted to do with his life that a continuing involvement in Test cricket would not allow him to do: "For to me cricket was a game, not my life. Also it was not my profession. Therefore, in conscience, I could not give it
2294-604: The Ifafa mission station. Rood then transferred to Amanzimtoti following the 16 September 1851 death of mission founder the Reverend Newton Adams , M.D. Adams was much revered and in the 1930s the school was renamed Adams College in his honour. Adams had arrived in 1835 with two other missionaries, but after being rebuffed by the Thabethe tribe which employed local chiefs from numerous nguni clans one noticeable one
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2368-628: The KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Geographical Names Committee recommended changing the town's name to aManzamtoti/eManzamtoti. In November 2009, the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality submitted a list of places in the municipality to the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Geographic Names Committee to be changed from their anglicised names to the correct Zulu spelling. In the list, the town "Amanzimtoti"
2442-644: The Lucky Stars toured throughout the country and they nearly had a tour of Europe. The "Shooting Stars" are one of the oldest football teams in the Durban area. Football was introduced by the missionary schools and the Shooting Stars were able to challenge similar teams at Ifafa , Umbumbulu and Inanda . All of these teams were well established by 1902. George Copeland Grant was on the teaching staff of Adams College where cricket had been introduced in
2516-553: The Reinbach family, who came from Cape Town . The Kynoch factory for the manufacture of explosives was built in Arklow , Ireland in 1895. Mr Arthur Chaimberlain of Kynochs visited South Africa in 1907 to find a place to start another factory. 1,400 acres of land were bought at Umbogintwini , and on 24 October 1907, a group of Irishmen (23 workers and their families) from Arklow sailed from Southampton to work as factory hands at
2590-616: The Telephone Exchange building in Bjorseth Crescent in the late 1940s or early 1950s. Amanzimtoti offered refuge to many Middle Eastern and British evacuees during the Second World War , many of whom lived in holiday cottages and in private homees. When a school was started at Toti Town Hall, Dr Frickle paid for two teachers' salaries out of money he made at his clinic selling "No 9s" (red pills "from
2664-635: The United Nations and Luthuli was to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Between 1933 and 1945 Edgar Brookes was the Principal of Adams College. He worked closely with John Dube of Ohlange High School to achieve common objectives of improving the lot of native Africans. The school became one of the most important schools for black education. In 1945 the school lost Edgar Brookes, and there was a period of unrest and poor discipline. In 1947
2738-472: The West Indies. He said: "I was younger than all of the sixteen players, save three; and most of these sixteen had already played for the West Indies, and I had not. Yet I was the captain. It could not be disputed that my white colour was a major factor in my being given the post." At the time the West Indian authorities considered it essential that the Test team be led by a white man, despite the fact that
2812-522: The area had 1 hotel, 3 or 4 houses and 12 huts on the lagoon (clustered on the shore between the lagoon and Chain Rocks ). The huts were made of wood and iron or motor-car packing cases and served as holiday bungalows, and two of the houses had been built by the Department of Native Affairs for resident officers. The 5th house in Amanzimtoti was built on the corner of Adams Road and Ross Street in 1908 by
2886-578: The army"), which he purportedly prescribed "for everything". Miss Burns (who ran the Guides) held the first Arbour Day in Natal , and along with 16 Guides, planted 60 Erythrina lysistemon trees along Beach Road. These trees "blazed red" when in flower and were known as the "glory of Beach Road"; for this reason, the Coral Tree is included in the crest of Amanzimtoti. These trees were however cut down in
2960-473: The blast and more than forty suffered injuries. eManzimtoti is located at the mouth of the aManzimtoti River , about 27 kilometres (17 mi) south-west of Durban . The town borders Umbogintwini and Athlone Park to the north, Kingsburgh to the south and KwaMakhutha to the west. However, the Greater eManzimtoti area comprises a larger area stretching from Isipingo in the north to Karridene in
3034-459: The captain, Douglas Jardine , who scored his only Test century and saved the English innings from collapse. Grant said admiringly of Jardine's innings: "Never once did he flinch. Never once did he lose his nerve." Having now seen bodyline in action, Grant did not use it again. Grant's last Test series was the English tour of 1934-35 . West Indies won this series two to one with one Test drawn. In
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3108-618: The college's place. This demise of a leading school was documented by Grant in his book The Liquidation of Adams College , and later in his memoirs. After apartheid ended in the 1990s, the school was restored as Adams College. Grant and his wife spent a year in Nigeria working for the International Missionary Council , organising an all-Africa Christian conference, which was held in Nigeria in 1958 and led to
3182-498: The country the (black) manual labour it required. The school's name returned to "Adams" when Bantu education was abandoned. During this period the school was poorly cared for during the Apartheid period and buildings were demolished. The school requires some work to achieve its previous successes but in 2007 the school achieved a 93% Matric pass rate in line with Thulani Khumalo the heads priority of "academic excellence". Both what
3256-488: The eighth and ninth children; Rolph was the tenth. Like all his brothers, George was educated at Queen's Royal College in Port of Spain. He captained the school's cricket and soccer teams, and because of his cricket ability he was sent to Christ's College, Cambridge , unlike his older brothers and sisters, who had studied at Canadian universities. Grant attended Cambridge from 1926 to 1930 to study History and qualify as
3330-399: The end of its operation. Grant took a leading role in this service when he paraphrased Hugh Latimer to say: "Be of good comfort, Adams College. We have these years lit such a candle in South Africa as I trust shall never be put out". The school was sold to the government and Grant left South Africa. The government agreed not to use the name Adams College for the school it planned to set up in
3404-461: The first President and the incumbent President of the ANC were staff from the school and the authorities were adamant. They allowed the nearby Inanda Seminary School to operate outside the act, but in 1956 the school held a service to mark the end of its operation. The school was sold to the government and the head left South Africa. The important item was the school was not able to be called "Adams". What
3478-428: The first mayor of Amanzimtoti; prior to this, residents used to collect rainwater from the roofs of their houses. The first petrol pump in the town was owned and operated by Mr and Mrs Silverstone, who also ran a store called "The Silverstones". The first post office was situated on the railway station, next door to Mrs Morton's Tea Room. Mrs North was the first post-mistress. The post office and telephone exchange moved to
3552-479: The first person to take a camera up the river, but also describes "reed-covered isles" and "overhanging trees", and his photographs show Phoenix reclinata growing on the banks. The railway line from Durban to Isipingo was extended to Park Rynie from 1896 onwards, and the first train passed through Amanzimtoti in 1897. This train left Durban on 22 February at 7:55 AM and consisted of a Dübs & Company locomotive with two goods trucks, two passenger trucks, and
3626-585: The first private multi-racial school in Rhodesia, in Chikore, about 130 km east of Salisbury . They helped to create and run a charitable organisation called Christian Care to help the families of political detainees – including paying school fees and rent, helping wives visit their husbands in detention camps, and distributing clothing from overseas donations. Eventually, returning to Rhodesia in 1975 after some time abroad, they were refused permission to re-enter
3700-592: The formation of the All Africa Conference of Churches . They then returned to Rhodesia to do missionary work. In their work they frequently found themselves at odds with the colonial authorities in their attitudes to the position of blacks in Rhodesian society. Their difficulties increased with the advent in 1965 of the Ian Smith government and its racial policies. In the early 1960s they opened
3774-539: The main building of the school burned down. A new headmaster, Jack Grant, a white academic, arrived from Trinidad in 1948 to refocus the school. The school faced legal opposition from the government as the Bantu Education Act came into force. This act required that South African schools prepare black students for secondary and manual labour. Grant and the school felt that this was unacceptable and argued that they should be allowed to become independent. However
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#17327973204663848-548: The most important schools for black education in South Africa. Cricket had been introduced to the school in the 1930s, and Grant raised the status of the game among the black population around Durban and made Adams College a centre for the sport. Adams College faced major opposition from the National Party government, especially after the Bantu Education Act came into force. The government wanted black students to be prepared for menial jobs under white bosses, and this
3922-536: The new Kynoch's factory in Umbogintwini. These people lived in Amanzimtoti and Isipingo before the village of Umbogintwini took shape. One of these "Irishmen" (Harry Purves) was in fact originally from Durban, where he was born to Scottish immigrants. In 1910 Toti had "a dozen families" (according to Bill Bailey), and the Toti Hotel had 50 rooms. In 1911 Toti was an hour's ride from Durban by train, and
3996-564: The north. Amanzimtoti includes a host of several shopping malls with the largest of these being the Galleria Mall in Arbour Town. Also found in the area are: Toti Centre (formerly known as Sanlam Centre), Toti Mall, Arbour Crossing and Seadoone Mall. Amanzimtoti is home to a wide variety of wildlife, including Cape clawless otters , blue duiker and spotted ground-thrush . Vervet monkeys are common and can be seen throughout
4070-563: The other was drawn. Grant scored 1195 runs in the season at an average of 30.64, with two centuries, including his highest first-class score of 115 against an England XI at the end of the tour when he added 226 for the third wicket with Headley. In the Tests, however, he made only 102 runs in six innings. In the Second Test at Manchester he asked his fastest bowlers, Manny Martindale and Learie Constantine, to use bodyline tactics. The English batsmen were unable to play it confidently – except for
4144-439: The priority that others did and also expected me to do." At the same time as his cricket career Grant also played soccer for Trinidad and Tobago . Grant began his teaching career in Southern Rhodesia in 1931. He taught for two terms at Plumtree School and then briefly at Milton High School before accepting the offer of a position at his old school, Queen's Royal College. Before leaving Southern Rhodesia, he and Ida – who
4218-562: The side in 1929, scoring 691 runs in 14 matches at an average of 31.40. He improved on this record in 1930, when he scored 716 runs in 11 matches at an average of 44.75, including his first century , 100 against Sussex . In 1930, while in his final months at Cambridge, Grant was offered the captaincy of the West Indies Test team on its tour of Australia in 1930-31. This was an unusual appointment, as not only had he not played Test cricket, he had never played first-class cricket in
4292-474: The south and KwaMakhutha to the west and includes areas such as Prospecton , Athlone Park , Umbogintwini , Doonside , Warner Beach , Winklespruit and Illovo Beach amongst others. Regarded as the “gateway” to the South Coast of KwaZulu-Natal , Amanzimtoti has a long-standing reputation and history as a popular tourist destination, owing to its attractive setting on this part of the coastline. As
4366-419: The spelling and many Durbanites and residents and businesses of Amanzimtoti still spell the town with its original spelling. King Shaka visited the area whilst on a raid down to Pondoland towards the end of his reign (1816 to 1828). When Shaka stopped to rest in the area, he had his personal attendant collect water from a nearby stream. This water was presented to King Shaka in a calabash . After drinking
4440-441: The suburban parts of the town and in the nature reserves. Most of the wildlife can be found along the aManzimtoti River or in the coastal dune vegetation. A nature reserve was established along the banks of the river in 1965 called Ilanda Wilds . There is also a 'bird park' called Umdoni Bird Sanctuary along one of the tributaries of the aManzimtoti River. Other nature reserves and green areas include; Umbogavango, Vumbuka, and
4514-623: The top players were black, such as George Headley and Learie Constantine . The tour of Australia was not a success, the West Indies losing the first four Tests easily. They regained some pride in the Fifth Test, when Grant's two well-timed declarations put Australia under pressure on a difficult pitch and the West Indies won in a close finish by 30 runs. Despite their modest results, the West Indians were popular in Australia, wrote
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#17327973204664588-410: The wars with Shaka leaving Mbalasi to care for herself. She and her son Nembula became part of the Adams home. A historic meeting took place here in 1881 when the Reverend William Cullen Wilcox was asked to talk to a fatherless student called John Dube about his poor behavior at the school. John was the son of the Reverend James Dube who was the Congregational minister in Inanda. In 1887 John Dube
4662-420: The water he exclaimed "Kanti amanz'amtoti" (Zulu for "So the water is sweet"). Extensions of the legend tell that King Shaka had sat under a large wild fig tree to drink the water, or that he used to meet local indunas (chiefs) under a specific fig tree. The exact tree is unknown; one tree laying claim to the distinction fell down in March 1972, and another fell down in June 1981. Dick King passed through
4736-449: Was "adopted" by the Wilcoxes and taken to America to study at Oberlin College . Wilcox was to be eventually awarded with a medal by the South African government and Dube was to open his own school , his own newspaper and to be the first leader of what was to become the African National Congress . In 1888 Dr. John Mavuma Nembula, a student from Adams, returned to the College from America. He had been sent to America to help with translating
4810-430: Was a Canadian Presbyterian missionary who lived in Trinidad from 1870 to 1907. Kenneth James Grant's son, Thomas Geddes Grant (born in Canada in 1866), founded a trading company, T. Geddes Grant, in Trinidad in 1901, and later discovered oil on a cocoa estate he had bought. He and his wife Christina had seven boys and three girls. George and his twin sister Janet (who were always known in the family as Jack and Jill) were
4884-458: Was a gully with rocks sheltering it on either side. Mrs Miller (née Reinbach) and her husband Douglas Miller built a bungalow near this site in the early 1920s, and a tea room existed there in 1923. The two Reinbach brothers and a Mr Grainger were often called upon to rescue bathers, and it was decided to use the gully, and place suspended chains across it, to provide a safe area for bathers. The chains were put up sometime before 1926, and this place
4958-412: Was also teaching, at the Hope Fountain Mission near Bulawayo – were married in Bulawayo in May 1932. He taught at Queen's Royal College until 1935, when he accepted an offer of the Principalship of Grenada Boys' Secondary School , where he stayed until 1943. He and Ida had three children, two boys and a girl. In 1939 one of the boys died in early childhood of diphtheria . He worked in Zanzibar for
5032-404: Was demolished in 1984. However, the "best guess" for the first house built in Amanzimtoti is 1895, and it may have been on the "headland" south of Amanzimtoti Lagoon. A photograph of a rowing-boat on the Amanzimtoti River taken in 1889 shows the banks of the river vegetated with Phragmites australis , Phoenix reclinata and coastal bush. However a later traveler in 1911 claims to have been
5106-408: Was headed by inkosi Mtubantuba to donate cattle they had set out to establish three complementary missions. Adams had chosen a site south of Durban where he founded a "family school" within months of his arrival. The school attracted both adults and children. He was helped by an early convert called Mbalasi who was the widow of Duze Ka Mnengwa KaKhondlo. He had been a Chief of the Makanya killed during
5180-532: Was recommended to be changed to "eManzamtoti" and the Amanzimtoti River was recommended to be changed to "aManzamtoti”. On 1 October 2010, the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Arts and Culture gazetted the list of approved name changes which included the town and river of Amanzimtoti, however the gazetted names were slightly different to the ones initially recommended with Amanzimtoti town spelt as “eManzimtoti” and Amanzimtoti River as “aManzimtoti”. However, no changes have been made on road signs in Amanzimtoti regarding
5254-433: Was the opposite of what Adams College was trying to achieve. The minister allowed the nearby Inanda Seminary School for girls to operate outside the act, but in 1956, it got to an ultimatum and the staff refused to stop teaching academic and aspirational education. Despite Grant's efforts the government made the college's position impossible, and the school was liquidated. The school held a service in December 1956 to mark
5328-581: Was the principal of the mission school Adams College near Durban , until the school was forcibly closed as part of the apartheid punitive education laws. He then undertook missionary work in Rhodesia , concentrating on the education and welfare of black Africans, until the Ian Smith government refused him permission to return to the country in 1975. George Copeland Grant was born in Port of Spain , Trinidad and Tobago . His grandfather, Kenneth James Grant ,
5402-478: Was then called Chain Rocks. Paul Henwood May moved to Amanzimtoti in 1922, and built several colonial-style homes (made from wood, with an iron roof and a front verandah ). Many people moved to Amanzimtoti during the Great Depression , attracted by the lower cost-of-living compared to the cities. Amanzimtoti was granted local administration in 1934, with a population of 774. One of the "highlights" of
5476-568: Was then thought to be the end of a leading school was described by ex-staff member George C. Grant in his book, The Liquidation of Adams College . The school was renamed the Amanzimtoti Zulu Training School as the Bantu Education Act, 1953 finally came into effect. Bantu Education was a clearly divisive and paternalist racist campaign that was designed to educate black children for their lowly place in society. Academic subjects were not encouraged as this might deny
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