Mount Edgecombe Country Club Estate

Abandoning core sugar business killed off Tongaat Hulett

Departing from its core business, and having its fingers in too many pies, is what crippled Tongaat Hulett and ultimately left it open to massive fraud

Anathi Madubela

6 min read

A 19th-century image of an indentured labourer’s dance troupe in Natal. (Image courtesy of Campbell Collections, Killie Campbell Africana Library, UKZN)

1860 1911

17 SEP 2021

‘The Making of Mount Edgecombe’: A view of history from below

Indian indentured labourers’ lives are celebrated in a new book, Sugar Mill Barracks: The Making of Mount Edgecombe

Youlendree Appasamy

12 min read