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Delve into Wiggins
The district Wiggins of in eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality (KwaZulu-Natal) is a district located in South Africa about 330 mi south-east of Pretoria, the country's capital town.
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Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 25°C / 76 °F
Morning Temperature | 21°C / 70 °F |
Evening Temperature | 23°C / 73 °F |
Night Temperature | 22°C / 72 °F |
Chance of rainfall | 14% |
Air Humidity | 84% |
Air Pressure | 1013 hPa |
Wind Speed | Moderate breeze with 12 km/h (7 mph) from South |
Cloud Conditions | Overcast clouds, covering 95% of sky |
General Conditions | Heavy intensity rain |
Friday, 22nd of November 2024
26°C (78 °F)
22°C (72 °F)
Moderate rain, moderate breeze, scattered clouds.
Saturday, 23rd of November 2024
25°C (76 °F)
21°C (69 °F)
Overcast clouds, fresh breeze.
Sunday, 24th of November 2024
24°C (75 °F)
23°C (73 °F)
Light rain, gentle breeze, few clouds.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Westville Bed & Breakfast Guest House
COASTLANDS MUSGRAVE HOTEL
Coweys Corner
Mackaya Bella Guest House
Roseland House
Sparkling Star Bed & Breakfast
T&T Bed and Breakfast
Davaar Guesthouse
Jay and Bee Guest House
The Meritus
Videos from this area
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Cascoland 2008 Durban Parade Film
During the Cascoland 2008 project in Durban, Movinghands created a mobile production unit made from a camera and tv monitor mounted in a wheely bin. We recorded the reactions of passers over...
Jordy Surfs South Africa
Jordy Smith surfs his home breaks Cave Rock, New Pier, North Beach and Mozambique.
Banghra Dance in Durban MRT3859838
This was happening in 2007 in Pavillion shopping mall in Westville MRT3859838.
Saving the Oceans: uShaka Sea World
The oceans cover over 70% of the earth's surface and has the capacity to sustain life as we know it. Fron trhe oxygen that we breathe to the fish that we eat and the rain that falls, all...
Tropical Storm Irina hits Durban
Footage of Durban's beachfront during tropical storm Irina on Sunday 4th March 2012. Go to www.satvchannel.com for other videos on South Africa.
Film transfer of 8mm home movies
Another 1950's vintage film of my own family captured on Standard 8mm film. Originally transferred in 4:3 ratio then cropped to fit 16:9 widescreen. We transfer all film formats including 16mm...
JOYOUS CELEBRATION 15 PART 4
The Joyous Celebration 15 live recording was held at the Durban ICC Arena on Friday, 17 December 2010 and Saturday, 18 December 2010.
Lodge Scuba - Sardine Run
Members of London dive club Lodge Scuba dived the Sardine Run in South Africa. Edited by Mel Tanti. For more information about Lodge Scuba please visit: www.lodgescuba.com.
Hooters Girls Umhlanga
The soon to be launched Hooters Umhlanga girls spent the morning at East Coast Radio on The Big Breakfast. Filmed Edited Produced by Wez Cruickshanks.
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
University of KwaZulu-Natal
The University of KwaZulu-Natal or UKZN is a university with five campuses all located in the province of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. It was formed on 1 January 2004 after the merger between the University of Natal and the University of Durban-Westville.
Kingsmead Cricket Ground
Kingsmead is a cricket ground in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It operates under the sponsorship-based name of Sahara Stadium Kingsmead where Sahara is the trademark of a sponsor from the IT industry. Its stated capacity is 25,000, although grass terracing makes up part of the viewing area. The 'end names' are the Umgeni End (north) and the Old Fort Road End (south). It is the home ground of the KwaZulu-Natal Dolphins.
Westville Boys' High School
Westville Boys' High School, often referred to as WBHS, is a public high school for boys located in Westville, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Durban University of Technology
The Durban University of Technology (DUT) is a University of Technology in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It was formed in 2002 by the merger of Technikon Natal and ML Sultan Technikon and was previously known as the Durban Institute of Technology. It has four campuses in Durban, and two in Pietermaritzburg. In 2005, around 20 000 students were enrolled.
Berea, Durban
The Berea is a ridge above the city of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa on the northern side which overlooks the city centre and the Indian Ocean. Berea is also used as a collective designation for the suburbs in the area. It has been described as the area between the Howard College Campus of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and the Burman Bush Nature Reserve. Some of the oldest mansions in Durban were built in this once forested area.
Inkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre
The Durban International Convention Centre (ICC) is a large convention centre in Durban, South Africa. The venue has hosted the International AIDS Conference in 2000, the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 1999, and the Non-Aligned Movement in 2004. It hosted the preliminary draw for the 2010 FIFA World Cup and will host the COP17 meeting in 2011. It is situated next to the Durban Exhibition Centre ("Expo"), built in the 1980s http://www. icc. co. za/About. aspxhttp://www. articlesnatch.
Clifton School
Clifton School is an independent school for boys located in Durban, Kwazulu-Natal, in the Republic of South Africa.
Dick King
Richard Philip "Dick" King (1813 – 1871) was an English trader and colonist at Port Natal, a British trading station in the region now known as KwaZulu-Natal. He is best known for a historic horseback ride in 1842, where he completed a journey of 960 kilometres in 10 days, in order to request help for the besieged British garrison at Port Natal (now the Old Fort, Durban).
Battle of Congella
The Battle of Congella, beginning 23 May 1842, was between British and Boer forces.
Kennedy Road, Durban
Kennedy Road is a shack settlement, in the suburb of Clare Estate in Durban, in the province of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. It was founded by a Mr. Mzobe in the late 1970s. The land on which the settlement was founded is steep and runs down between the Municipal Dump and the 6 lane Umgeni Road. At the time of the occupation, the suburb of Clare Estate was reserved, under apartheid legislation, for the exclusive use of people of Indian descent.
Al Falaah College
Al Falaah College is an alternative, independent school situated in the coastal city of Durban, in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Jameson Park and Rose Garden
Jameson Park and Rose Garden {{#invoke:Coordinates|coord}}{{#coordinates:29|49|37|S|31|00|31|E| |primary |name= }} is a rose garden located in Durban, South Africa. Once being a pineapple plantation, it currently possesses about 200 species of roses which are prominent in the South African Spring months of September to November.
Burman Bush
Burman Bush is a nature reserve in Morningside, Durban, situated some 8 km north of the CBD. At about 50 hectares it constitutes a small coastal forest, that forms part of the Durban Municipal Open Space System (D'MOSS). Among the forest trees that populate the reserve are flat-crowns, the forest fever-berry and red beech.
Natal Observatory
The Natal Observatory was an astronomical observatory in the Colony of Natal (now the KwaZulu-Natal province of the Republic of South Africa) from 1882 to 1911. The most important work carried out there was a study of the motion of the moon.
Umbilo River
The Umbilo River is a river in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The mouth of the river is situated in Durban harbour. The Umbilo River forms part of the Durban Metro's d'Moss trail and conservation efforts.
Educor
Educor is a premier supplier of tertiary education in South Africa. Educor is an abbreviation for the Education Investment Corporation Limited. They are the largest provider of private education in Southern Africa. They provide Higher, Further and Vocational education via face-to-face classes, distance learning and online learning. They also offer full-time and part-time studies, providing people from all walks of life with access to education.
Pigeon Valley
Pigeon Valley is a Natural Heritage Park in Durban, South Africa. It was established to provide protection for the Natal White Stinkwood and other forest giants of the coastal climax forest. Another rare tree that occurs here is Oxyanthus pyriformis which is endemic to the Durban area and to Ongoye Forest. Pigeon Valley was developed as a Nature Reserve in 1989 and is about 10ha in extent.
Durban Botanic Gardens
The Durban Botanic Gardens is situated in the City of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is Durban’s oldest public institution and Africa's oldest surviving botanic gardens. The gardens cover an area of 15 hectares in a subtropical climate.
Mitchell Park Zoo
Mitchell Park Zoo is also known as Mitchell Park or Mitchell's Park. Situated in the Morningside suburb of Durban, South Africa, it is the only zoo in Durban. The zoo was established as an Ostrich farm in 1910, but was unprofitable and started adding other animals. At one time it was home to many large animals, the most notable of which was an Indian Elephant named Nellie.
Durban cenotaph
The Durban cenotaph was erected in Farewell Square, Durban, South Africa, as a memorial to soldiers who died in World War I. Standing about 11 metres (36 feet) high, the monument is built of granite decorated with glazed ceramic tiles depicting two angels raising the soul of a dead soldier. The vivid colour of the figurative decoration makes the cenotaph possibly unique among World War I memorials of its kind.
Durban railway station
Durban railway station is the central railway station in the city of Durban, South Africa, located between Umgeni Road and Masabalala Yengwa Avenue just to the north of the central business district. It is the terminus of Shosholoza Meyl long-distance services from Johannesburg and Cape Town, and the hub of a network of Metrorail commuter rail services that stretch as far as KwaDukuza (Stanger) to the north, Kelso to the south, and Cato Ridge inland.
Lambert Road Baptist Church
Lambert Road Baptist Church is an evangelical church located in the suburb of Morningside, in Durban, South Africa. This church is a member of the Baptist Union of Southern Africa.
KwaZulu-Natal High Court, Durban
The KwaZulu-Natal High Court, Durban (formerly the Durban & Coast Local Division and commonly known as the Durban High Court) is one of the High Courts of South Africa. It sits at Durban and has general jurisdiction over the coastal districts of KwaZulu-Natal. It is a local division subordinate to the KwaZulu-Natal High Court, Pietermaritzburg, and as such it does not have its own Judge President but is under the leadership of the Judge President of the Pietermaritzburg court.
Trams in Durban
The Durban tramway network formed part of the public transport system in Durban, South Africa, for nearly 70 years until the end of the 1940s.
Overport
Overport is a hilly residential area in Durban, South Africa. The name Overport is commonly used to refer to the suburbs of Overport, Sydenham, Sparks and parts of Essenwood, with the part of Sydenham west of Brickfield Road usually called Asherville rather than Overport. The name Overport was coined by William Hartley, the eighth Mayor of Durban for an estate he developed in what had up to then been called West Hill.