 Last Thursday of every month.
KZN Literary Tourism invites you to join us on a literary tour of Grey Street, Durban’s old Indian business and residential area and the cultural heart of KwaZulu- Natal’s Indian community.
Follow in the footsteps of famous political figures such as Dr Goonam, Fatima Meer, Phyllis Naidoo and Mahatma Ghandi and experience the places that inspired literary works by Imraan Coovadia, Aziz Hassim, Ravi Govender and Mariam Akabor.
We will be running the Grey Street Writers Tout on the last Thursday of every month. These tours are open to tourists and Durban residents alike and we encourage as many people as possible to join us. This is a half-day tour (morning or afternoon) at a cost of R250.00 per person. For more on the tour, see Grey Street Literary Trail. |
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 Ronnie Govender (1934 - ) was born in Cato Manor and has strong feelings about this community, as is evident in most of his 13 plays and his collection of stories, At the Edge and Other Cato Manor Stories, for which he received the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. As a protest against bourgeois theatre he formed the Shah Theatre Academy to foster indigenous theatre. The Lahnee’s Pleasure, one of South Africa’s longest running plays, and At the Edge, both received critical and commercial acclaim. In 2000, Ronnie Govender was awarded a Medal by the English Academy of South Africa for his contribution to English literature. Govender published Song of the Atman, part of which is set in Cato Manor, in 2006.
Lewis Nkosi (1936 - ) worked for many years as a magazine editor and broadcast journalist in Durban (Ilanga lase Natal), Johannesburg (Drum), London (The New African), and the U.S. (NET). He is the author of several collections of essays; two plays, The Rhythm of Violence (1964) and The Black Psychiatrist (2001); and the novels Mating Birds (1986), Underground People (2002), and Mandela's Ego (2006). The protagonist in Mating Birds lived in Cato Manor. His career as Professor of Literature has included positions at Universities in Africa (Zambia), the USA (Wyoming, California (Irvine)), and Europe (Warsaw). Now resident in Switzerland, Lewis Nkosi frequently travels to literary conferences as an invited guest. |
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Cato Manor Trail
Includes services of - Accredited guide
- Community guide
- Trail pamphlet and magnetic bookmark
Grey Street Trail
Includes services of - Accredited guide
- And trail pamphlet and magnetic bookmark
4 people R250pp 5–8 people R220pp
Special rates for bigger groups. To book, call Lindy Stiebel on +27 (0) 31 260 2308or email
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 Alan Paton is most famous as the author of the world-renowned novel, Cry, the beloved country. He also wrote two other novels, poetry, short stories, biographies, autobiographies and political articles. He was torn between being an author and a politician. He was a founder member of the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA) in 1953, its National Chairman from 1956 to 1958, and its National President from 1958 to 1968. He is also famous as a humanitarian, educationalist, a reformer of the juvenile justice system (from his time as Principal of the Diepkloof Reformatory, 1953-1948) and as a fierce opponent of apartheid. He was born and educated in Pietermaritzburg, and he retained ties with it throughout his life, calling it “the lovely city” in his autobiography.
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 Henry Rider Haggard was born on 22 June 1856 at Bradenham, Norfolk. His academic career was undistinguished and after failing the Army Entrance examination he was sent to London to study for the Foreign Office examination. There he became unofficially engaged to Mary Elizabeth Jackson, known as Lilly, but the romance was put on hold when in 1875 Haggard's parents arranged for him to join the staff of Sir Henry Bulwer, Lieutenant-Governor of Natal. |
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