![]() Phoenix Settlement should not be confused with nearby Phoenix Township. ![]() (GroundUp also struggled to find where to turn off from Curnick Ndlovu highway.) Once at the museum, Govender said the grounds were neglected and the statue of Gandhi had cobwebs on it.Įla Gandhi, the Mahatma’s granddaughter and a former member of parliament, says her grandfather owned about 100 acres of land and this is where the Bhambayi community built their lives in 1985 after the eNanda unrest. ![]() But he struggled to find the place because the signs were not obvious, and he ended up on a dirt road. His house remains as a museum.īut poor roads, and almost no signage or publicity, means the route is sadly neglected.ĭurban resident Jimmy Govender travelled to the Gandhi settlement during the January holidays hoping to share this history with his child. Mahatma Gandhi lived here too, and it is where he established Phoenix Settlement in 1904. The Inanda heritage route, north of Durban, has a number of sites of significant historical importance, including the home and grave of John Dube, first president of the ANC, who established a school here, where Nelson Mandela chose to cast his first vote in the new democracy in 1994. The Gandhi Development Trust, which does many good works for the community, no longer has any major donors.The Gandhi museum is becoming run-down and the City has not renewed the lease on which it depended for income.The sadly neglected Inanda heritage route has the homes of ANC founder John Dube and also Mahatma Gandhi. ![]() Broken spectacles adorn the statue of Mahatma Gandhi at the museum home where he lived. ![]()
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