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31-588: The Dube Tradeport Corporation is named after John Langalibalele Dube , who was an educator, clergyman, writer , newspaper editor and the founding president of the then South African Native National Congress , later the ANC. In 2002, the South African government decided to invest in a new international airport outside Durban . The following year saw the creation of the Dube Tradeport Company by

62-601: A book on self-reliance, the gospel that was taught by the American sage Ralph Waldo Emerson . Washington's book proved immensely influential in Bantu thought and across the black world. It was subsequently translated into several Bantu languages in South Africa, but Dube never chose to translate it, instead putting its teachings into practice. This was a feat that was never duplicated, except by Garvey and his movement and, on

93-556: A child with one of their pupils. A committee was set up to investigate John, but they took no action and Nokutela felt humiliated. The couple separated in about 1914, and Nokutela moved to the Transvaal until she became ill with kidney disease. She returned to live with John Dube in Johannesburg , and died in 1917 at the age of 44. Her funeral was attended by Pixley ka Isaka Seme and other prominent members of what

124-418: A coherent socio-political movement was to come into being with Marcus Garvey 's Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League , founded in 1914. In his politics Dube was cautious and conservative, yet he was forthright on the rights of blacks and the paramount tenet of unity – he foresaw the necessity of the unity of black people long before Garvey came to the international scene. Dube

155-510: A minor scale, by the political figure Steve Biko in his hometown of King William's Town in the province of the Eastern Cape. Dube had been inspired by Washington's Tuskegee Institute ; years later Marcus Garvey attempted to see Washington because of a similar inspiration, though he arrived in the US in 1916, Washington had died the previous year. Dube's school is still functioning today. Dube

186-498: A national anthem after Ohlange Institute 's choir used it. They played it at the South African Native National Congress meeting in 1912. It was sung after the closing prayer and the ANC adopted it as its official closing anthem in 1925. Dube had experienced first-hand the influence of Booker T. Washington in his travels to the US to expand his education in early 1890. He and his wife founded

217-536: A statesman-like ability, as in his later years, when he was able to win the trust of the Zulu royal family. It is conceivable that Dube would never have been part of the SANC, except that his teaching and discourse on the necessity of unity chimed in with the then-nascent political atmosphere. Dube's speeches as president of a black political mass-movement have never been made available. The next formation of black people into

248-471: Is no longer independent since being bought by the then proto-political association Inkatha yeNkululelo yeSizwe in 1988, led by Mangosuthu Buthelezi , later to be known as a political party in post-apartheid South Africa called Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP). Dube and his first wife, Nokutela Dube, are credited with popularizing the Enoch Sontonga song " Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika ". This later became

279-630: The Dube AgriLab , a micro-propagation facility of high quality disease-free plants through sterile tissue culture. It has the capacity to produce three million small plants in its 5,300 m2 plant. This entity supplies a dedicated IT and telecommunication network to the Tradeport and the external companies operating in the zone and offers a cloud service, regional data storage and disaster recovery. John Langalibalele Dube John Langalibalele Dube OLG (22 February 1871 – 11 February 1946)

310-740: The London Missionary Society and Congregational Union of South Africa to form the United Congregational Church of Southern Africa (UCCSA). His father, the Reverend James Dube, was one of the first ordained African pastors of the AZM. Dube began his formal education in Inanda and Adams College, Amanzimtoti . The Reverend William Cullen Wilcox was called in to talk to Dube, who was misbehaving at

341-966: The Ohlange High School based on the Tuskegee Institute founded by Booker T. Washington . In 1903, the Dubes founded the isiZulu newspaper Ilanga (now Ilanga lase Natal ). In 1930, John Dube published Shaka's Body Servant . He died in 1946. John Langalibalele Dube was born in Natal at the Inanda mission station of the American Zulu Mission (AZM), a branch of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions , whose Southern African mission churches later merged with sister Congregational mission churches of

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372-448: The Ohlange High School in 1901, a school dedicated to teaching Bantu women modern ways to be liberated and find a place in modern society. In his Ukuziphatha Dube had identified the Bantu woman as the weakness in developing Bantu society because of the society's restrictions on education for women and what he identified as woman's propensity to ephemera. Dube was particularly influenced by reading Washington's Up From Slavery (1901),

403-670: The Adams School. His father James Dube was then the Congregational minister at Inanda. In 1887, the Wilcox family were returning to the United States and John Dube and his mother persuaded the missionary couple to take Dube to America, where he could further his education. The Cullens agreed, on the condition that Dube was to maintain himself financially; however, they advised him, and William found him his first work on

434-623: The Dube Trade House opening later in the year. The air-bridge from the cargo terminal opened in 2011 with the first produce at the AgriZone harvested and the corporation moved into its new headquarters onsite. The Dube Tradeport Corporation is managed by the Board Chairperson Bridgette Gasa-Toboti and its daily operations are managed by Chief Executive Officer Hamish Erskine. Erskine had been in

465-717: The KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Government to develop a world-class aviation export facility. 2005 saw the beginnings of a development master plan for the Dube Tradeport at the proposed airport. In 2007, the iLembe Consortium were appointed to construct Dube Tradeport and the King Shaka International Airport. In 2010, the Dube Cargo Terminal and King Shaka International Airport opened on schedule with

496-512: The Zulu royal family, especially that of King Dinizulu, making him the first biographer in African literature. There are numerous other works of less significant literary quality such as the 1910 essay "Ukuziphatha" ("On Behaviour"). In addition to his literary works, Dube and his wife founded the first Zulu /English newspaper, Ilanga laseNatali ( The Sun of Natal ), in 1903, a publication that in 2003 celebrated its centenary. Ilanga laseNatali

527-543: The acting role from February 2015 and was officially appointed as CEO in September 2016. The previous CEO, Saxen van Coller, had been fired in June 2015 when she failed to disclose previous criminal offences. The Dube TradePort Corporation's business is divided amongst a number of entities: The cargo terminal currently has a capacity to handle 100,000 tons of cargo a year and has the capacity to increase to two million tons in

558-830: The future. Located next to King Shaka International Airport there is direct airside access to the cargo terminal. It is open 24 hours as is the on-site regulatory services such as customs. The cargo terminal connects Dube Trade Zones via overhead conveyor air-bridge allowing freight-forwarding community, logistics service providers, assemblers, distributors and manufacturers to based in that zone. The facility also boasts 1 500 m2 of open cold storage area and specialised temperature controlled storage. The cargo terminal has five main operators, Emirates Sky Cargo, SAA Cargo, Bid Air Cargo, SA Airlink and Africa Charter Airline. It also operates Dube AiRoad, that operates air-to-road and road-to-air cargo to clients in South and Southern Africa. The located inside

589-584: The new facility would have the capacity to produce 700 000 condoms per day for the local and export markets with 145 jobs created. October 2016 saw the announcement of the construction of a biopharmaceutical plant costing R1.3 billion at the Dube Tradeport. Signed in Goa , India between Cipla BioTec and the South African government, it will see a manufacturing plant producing biosimilars of affordable medicines for cancer and autoimmune diseases, to be sold in Africa and

620-635: The road gang when he arrived in America. In late 1888, Dube enrolled at Oberlin Academy Preparatory School and, although he studied printing and self-help, he did not graduate. In 1893, he returned to Inanda, where in January 1894 he married Nokutela Mdima. For a missionary-educated person, there was conflict between the newly arrived Western education and African traditional society. However, Dube navigated this social schism with

651-434: The types of industry the trade port wishes to attract are one that use air cargo and includes light manufacturing, assembling, high-tech industries, automotive industries, clothing and textiles, cold storage, pharmaceutical and electronic manufacturing. The establishment of R150 million condom manufacturing facility was announced at the Dube Tradeport on 19 July 2016. In a partnership between US-based HBM Group and SA Health,

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682-614: The world. It will be fully operational in 2018 with between 300 and 480 jobs created. This area of 12ha, with a future capacity of 24ha, contains office, retail and hospitality space for the zone. It is also home to the Dube Tradeport Corporation's headquarters called 29°South. The city comprises eight blocks and consists of forty five individual serviced stands. The facilities here provide for technical support for propagating, growing, packing and distributing perishables and horticultural products for export and also has

713-624: The zone is the Dube TradeHouse housing freight forwarders and shippers connected by an overhead conveyor air-bridge via the Dube Cargo Terminal. Dube TradeZone 1 consists of 26ha and when TradeZone 2 opened in 2015 the area will increase by 51ha. Some of the tenants include Samsung Electronics , Rossi SA, Pilosio SA, Tufbag, Yangtze Optical Fibre & Cable and Amsted Reelin. Dube TradeZone 3 is set aside for future development with 135ha available for development. TradeZone 4 and TradeZone 5 are also being considered for future developments. Some of

744-419: Was South Africa's first Nobel Peace Prize winner. The Order of Luthuli has three classes: The badge of the order is an equilateral triangle representing a flintstone above a clay pot. The flintstone depicts the sun rising above Isandhlwana , and the national flag, and it is flanked by two animal horns rising out of the clay pot, which bears the initials AL. Isandhlwana symbolises peace and tranquillity, and

775-717: Was a South African essayist, philosopher, educator, politician, publisher, editor, novelist and poet. He was the founding president of the South African Native National Congress (SANNC), which became the African National Congress in 1923. He was an uncle to Dr Pixley ka Isaka Seme , with whom he founded SANNC. Dube served as the president of SANNC between 1912 and 1917. He was brought to America by returning missionaries and attended Oberlin Preparatory Academy . He returned to South Africa, where in 1901 he and his first wife, Nokutela Dube , founded

806-452: Was a firm believer in self-reliance, both as an ethical and spiritual quest towards realisation of dignity and respect in the eyes of others. In Isita , he preached self-reliance and the need for black people to initiate economic ventures to gain respect in the eyes of the world. Nokutela and John Dube's organisation success was not matched in their marriage. Their failure to have children was seen to reflect badly on Nokutela and John fathered

837-502: Was also an educator, a speaker of note on the circuit engaging whites in lectures around the country. In 1901, he and his first wife, Nokutela Dube , founded the Zulu Christian Industrial School which is now the Ohlange High School at Ohlange, near Phoenix and EkuPhakameni . This was the first educational institution in South Africa to be founded by black people. He gave lecturers by invitation and he

868-482: Was among the pioneering men of letters who helped to establish Zulu literature. He was one of the first published Zulu authors, although the first published Zulu book was written by Magema Fuze , whose history of the Zulus, Abantu abamnyama lapo bavela ngakona (translated as The Black People and From Whence They Came ), was published in 1922, having been written in the 1880s and early 1890s. Dube's first published work

899-542: Was an essay in English on self-improvement and public decency that was published in 1910. The work that was to earn him the honorary doctorate of philosophy was the 1992 essay Umuntu Isita Sake Uqobo Lwake ( "A man is his own worst enemy" ; text in pre-1936 Zulu old orthography). He went on to publish, in 1930, a historical novella that has proven to be popular and influential in Zulu canon titled Insila kaShaka ( Shaka's Body Servant ). He embarked on writing biographies of

930-644: Was awarded a Doctorate of Philosophy as a result. His role as an educator has been less documented, but he held and proposed views on education and culture that were to be used in inimical ways by the Apartheid government when it came into power in 1948 and legislating the Bantu Education Act . Dube had identified the need to combine Western education with local customs and traditions, all grounded in broad African communal behaviour. His theories on education are found in both Ukuziphatha and Isita . He

961-574: Was to become the African National Congress . Order of Luthuli The Order of Luthuli is a South African honour. It was instituted on 30 November 2003 and is awarded by the President of South Africa for contributions to the struggle for democracy , human rights, nation-building, justice, or peace and conflict resolution. The order is named after former African National Congress leader Chief Albert Luthuli , who

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