Celebrating Humanity International

30/08/2026

Intelligence speaks volumes about who we are….awareness, patterns, understanding, beliefs….everything 😏

27/08/2026

26/08/2026

Before Springfield was Makro and shopping centres, it was known as the vegetable garden of Durban.

Along the fertile banks of the uMngeni River, market-gardening families grew vegetables that supplied Durban’s markets every day.

Women were part of that working life, planting, harvesting, carrying produce and helping support their families. Many of these families lived without electricity, running water or sanitation, yet their earnings helped build schools, temples and mosques, and sent children on to become teachers, doctors, lawyers and engineers.

The river that made the soil so fertile could also be deadly. In 1917, a devastating flood claimed hundreds of lives, while the Padavatan Six rescued 176 people from drowning.

For Women’s Month, we remember the women whose labour helped feed Durban and build a future for the generations that followed.

Legends of the Tide
248 pages | 300 photographs | Hardcover
R350 excl. courier
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23/08/2026