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J.Y.W. Macalister; Alfred W. Pollard (eds.). “Birth of Printing in South Africa”. The Library: A Quarterly Review of Bibliography and Library Lore. London. 5: 31\u201343. hdl:2027\/mdp.39015014978228. ISSN\u00a00024-2160 \u2013 via HathiTrust. Incuadi yesibini yabafundayo ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p “Durban Timeline 1497-1990”. Cape Town: South African History Online. Retrieved 27 September 2017.^ Steven Anzovin and Janet Podell, ed. (2000). Famous First Facts. H.W. Wilson Co. ISBN\u00a00824209583.^ “British Empire: Province of Natal”. Statesman’s Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027\/njp.32101072368440 \u2013 via HathiTrust.^ “Indian Newspapers in KwaZulu-Natal \u2013 150 years of Indian Journalism”. Ulwazi Programme (in English and Zulu). eThekwini Municipality. 4 November 2015. Retrieved 27 September 2017.^ “Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants”. Demographic Yearbook 1955. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. pp.\u00a0171\u2013184.^ “Packed house sees Durban’s first world premiere”, Natal Witness, 16 November 1951 \u2013 via Disa.ukzn.ac.za ^ “Southern Africa, 1900 A.D.\u2013present: Key Events”. Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 25 September 2017.^ “Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants”. Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966. pp.\u00a0140\u2013161.^ “Movie Theaters in Durban, South Africa”. CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved 25 September 2017.^ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office. “Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants”. Demographic Yearbook 1980. New York. pp.\u00a0225\u2013252.^ Jacqueline Audrey Kalley;  et\u00a0al., eds. (1999). Southern African Political History: A Chronology of Key Political Events from Independence to Mid-1997. Greenwood. ISBN\u00a0978-0-313-30247-3.^ United Nations Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis, Statistics Division (1997). “Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants”. 1995 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp.\u00a0262\u2013321. ^ “South Africa”. Africa South of the Sahara 2003. Regional Surveys of the World. Europa Publications. 2003. ISBN\u00a09781857431315. ISSN\u00a00065-3896.^ “Durban.gov.za”. Durban Metro Council. Archived from the original on 29 March 1996 \u2013 via Wayback Machine. Local Government – Durban – South Africa^ “Population of Capital Cities and Cities of 100,000 or More Inhabitants”. Demographic Yearbook 2012. United Nations Statistics Division. 2013.^ “South Africa profile: Timeline”. BBC News. 9 July 2011. Retrieved 25 September 2017.^ Durban Local History Museums, ed. (26 October 2009). “About”. Ulwazi Programme (in English and Zulu). eThekwini Municipality. Retrieved 27 September 2017.^ “Field day for music in Durban”, The Mercury, South Africa, 26 June 2013 \u2013 via LexisNexis Academic^ “South African mayors”. City Mayors.com. London: City Mayors Foundation 25 September 2017.^ “Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants”. Demographic Yearbook 2015. United Nations Statistics Division. 2016.Bibliography[edit]published in 19th-20th centuries[edit]J. Forsyth Ingram (1895). “Durban”. Colony of Natal: an official illustrated handbook and railway guide. London.“Principal Towns in Natal: Durban”, Natal Almanac Directory and Yearly Register, Pietermaritzburg: P. Davis & Sons, 1897W. P. M. Henderson (1904). Durban: Fifty Years’ Municipal History. Durban: Robinson & Co.Twentieth Century Impressions of Natal: Its People, Commerce, Industries, and Resources. Twentieth Century Impressions. Lloyd’s Greater Britain Publishing Company. 1906.“Durban”\u00a0. Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica. Vol.\u00a08 (11th\u00a0ed.). 1910. pp.\u00a0696\u2013697.“Durban”\u00a0. Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica. Vol.\u00a030 (12th\u00a0ed.). 1922. p.\u00a0868.Leo Kuper; Hilstan Watts; Ronald Davies (1958). Durban: A study in racial ecology. Jonathan Cape. OCLC\u00a0958188774.P. Maylam (1982). “Shackled by the Contradictions: The Municipal Response to African Urbanization in Durban, c. 1920-1950”. African Urban Studies. Michigan State University. ISSN\u00a00736-6760.Dowlat Ramdas Bagwandeen (1983). The question of ‘Indian penetration’ in the Durban area and Indian politics, 1940-1946 (PhD). University of Natal. hdl:10413\/8711. Paul Maylam (1985),  Richard Haines; Gina Buijs (eds.), “Aspects of African Urbanization in the Durban Area before 1940”, Struggle for Social and Economic Space: Urbanization in Twentieth Century South Africa, University of Durban-Westville, ISBN\u00a00949947733R. Posel (1985). “Durban Ricksha Pullers’ Strikes of 1918 and 1930”. Journal of Natal and Zulu History. University of Natal. 8: 85\u2013106. doi:10.1080\/02590123.1985.11964240. ISSN\u00a00259-0123.R.J. Davies (1991). “Durban”.  In Anthony Lemon (ed.). Homes Apart: South Africa’s Segregated Cities. Indiana University Press. ISBN\u00a00-253-33321-0.Timothy Andrew Nuttall (1991). Class, race and nation: African politics in Durban, 1929-1949 (PhD). University of Oxford. David Hemson (1996). “Beyond the Frontier of Control: Trade Unionism and the Labour Market in the Durban Docks”. Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa. University of Natal (30). ISSN\u00a00258-7696 \u2013 via African e-Journals Project. published in 21st century[edit]Bill Freund (2001). “Contrasts in Urban Segregation: A Tale of Two African Cities, Durban (South Africa) and Abidjan (C\u00f4te d’Ivoire)”. Journal of Southern African Studies. 27 (3): 527\u2013546. doi:10.1080\/13632430120074572. JSTOR\u00a0823314. PMID\u00a017650571. S2CID\u00a037285422.Antoine Bouillon (2002). “Citizenship and the city: the Durban centre-city in 2000”. Transformation. University of Natal (48). ISSN\u00a00258-7696 \u2013 via African e-Journals Project.Bill Freund; Vishnu Padayachee, eds. (2002). (D)urban Vortex: South African City in Transition. University of Natal Press.Brij Maharaj (2002), “Post Apartheid Metro Boundaries: Conflicts, Contestations and Compromises in Durban”, Rencontres scientifiques franco-Sud-Africaines de l’innovation territoriale, p.\u00a022 \u2013 via Halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr “Durban”. Understanding Slums: Case Studies for the Global Report 2003. United Nations Human Settlements Programme and University College London. 2003.Cherl Hendricks (2003). “Durban, South Africa”.  In Paul Tiyambe Zeleza; Dickson Eyoh (eds.). Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History. Routledge. ISBN\u00a00415234794.Exit, Voice and Tradition: Loyalty to Chieftainship and Democracy in Metropolitan Durban, South Africa, London: Crisis States Research Centre, 2005 \u2013 via International Relations and Security NetworkAran S. MacKinnon (2005). “Durban”.  In Kevin Shillington (ed.). Encyclopedia of African History. Fitzroy Dearborn. ISBN\u00a0978-1-57958-245-6.Kate Tuttle (2005). “Durban”.  In Kwame Anthony Appiah; Henry Louis Gates (eds.). Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (2nd\u00a0ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN\u00a0978-0-19-517055-9.Bill Freund (2007). “Globalisation and the African city: Touba, Abidjan, Durban”. The African City: A History. Cambridge University Press. p.\u00a0177+. ISBN\u00a0978-0-521-52792-7.Case study: Metropolitan Governance, EThekwini (Durban), South Africa, United Nations Human Settlements Programme, 2015 Ralph Callebert (2017). On Durban’s Docks: Zulu Workers, Rural Households, Global Labor. 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