Looking back on South Coast History: June 9 to 12

WHO was allowed on beaches was always a bone of contention.

June 9

1961
“THE Minister of Lands recognised the South Coast as a European holiday resort and was prepared to protect it as such to a degree. Where further European areas were to be set aside, certain provisions, not necessarily the same, must be arranged for other races.”

1961
“LARGE shoals of sardines were seen coming in at Umzikaba on Wednesday and they may be expected on the Lower South Coast within a week.”

1967
IT was announced that the Southern Natal Commercial High School would be a fully-fledged government school as from October 1, 1967.

1978
“UNTIL Africans are permitted to trade in white areas, white traders should not be granted permits to trade in black areas.” (JW S’Khosana, KwaZulu MP and chairman of the Izingolweni Chamber of Commerce)

June 10

1949
TAXPAYERS’ money had literally gone down the drain. “So far the Natal South Coast has developed in spite of, and not because of, the Provincial Administration’s policy regarding roads in this area. The money spent on re-gravelling the main South Coast road has literally ‘gone down the drain’ – the gravel is now resting either in the rivers, at the bottom of the ocean or on private lands. The Roads Department’s constructional methods have, in certain instances, promoted soil erosion.” (Gerald Hammond MPC)

1960
“NUMEROUS complaints that patients in the Port Shepstone Hospital were being kept awake by cane lorries passing up Bazley Street, in front of the hospital, to cross town to the sugar mill, were discussed at the annual general meeting of the Southern Natal Public Bodies’ Association last week.”

June 11

1937
“THE South Coast has once again been roused from its customary lethargy by the arrival of the sardines.”

1971
“THE chances of Protea Airways plan for a direct Johannesburg – Margate air link have taken a nose-dive.”

1976
THE surface of the taxi track at the Margate Airport was in such a bad state that three light aircraft had suffered damage in the previous three weeks.

June 12

1953
“IN the past few days vast shoals of small shad have been landed. It has been quite common for one angler to catch 100 or more in a single outing.”

1959
“THE Southern Natal Public Bodies’ Association is urging Mr DE Mitchell MP to do all in his power to persuade the minister to give the building of a new bridge across the Umtamvuna the highest priority.”

1959
“EVER since an African nurse of the Margate Child Welfare Society began her work in the Margate Location, she has been drawing the society’s attention to the fact that the incidence of malnutrition among the younger children living there is very high.”

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