Talk:Durban

message: This is vague: The large number of Indians were brought to work on the plantations and as a result it has the largest Indian population outside of India. Do you mean the largest Indian population outside of India, for a city? But in any case isn't the whole project of linking South African 'Indians' with India is a little problematic: after many generations, the link is a bit tenuous - when do they become South Africans? Consider how odd the sentence would sound if it were changed to the following: Durban has the largest English population outside of England. Psylocybha 01:43, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Indians 

message: I merged the data from Freeways of Durban as the final result from Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Freeways_of_Durban. --Deathphoenix 05:20, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merged text from [[Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Freeways_of_Durban|Freeways of Durban]] 

message: eThekwini is the locative of iTheku. itheku means lagoon or harbour, iTheku means Durban, ethekwini means in/at/to/from the lagoon, and eThekwini means in/at/to/from Durban. Joziboy 14 March 2006, 21:15 (UTC)
:I'll change it. The aspiration was also left out, but this still needs to be checked. On second thought, I'll just remove the IPA altogether. Zulu orthography is reasonably phonemic. kwami (talk) 02:42, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Zulu name

message: Isn't that a peculiarly British expression? Maybe Joburg is different, but to us the two forms of school were private and government. Joziboy 5 May 2006, 19:31 (UTC)
The  South African Schools Act of 1996 recognised only two categories of schools: public and independent. Public schools are state controlled and independent schools are privately governed. All private schools were included in the independent school category. Raker 05:22, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Public Schools? 

message: The Latin in that motto looks pretty odd.  Sure it's right?
http://www.translation-guide.com/free_online_translators.php?from=Latin&to=English
Says :- "To weaken Beginning Better Fortune The following" - compare "Better Fortune Follows A Difficult Beginning".
Looks fine to me.. Wizzy…☎ 13:07, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Latin motto

message: "A shack dwellers' movement Abahlali baseMjondolo that draws most of its membership from this sector has begun to vigorously contest the city's treatment of the poor and, in particular, its refusal to provide services to shack settlements and the ongoing illegal evictions in which people are either left homeless or, as under apartheid, forcibly removed to the urban periphery of the city"
I don't know anything about this topic, and that is excactly why I visited the page. However, the quoted text seems a tad bit biased. Anyone competent who can improve the text?
83.108.130.179 (talk) 23:50, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Balanced?    -Informal sector- 

message: Original text: "27.9 percent of city residents are unemployed. 88.6 percent of the unemployed are black, 18.3 percent are Coloureds, 8.2 percent are Asians or Indians, and 4.4 percent are White.[6]"
The data is inconsistent, because the percentage of unemployed black, Coloured, Asian/Indian and white population sums almost 120%. The source is not precise to verify the origin of the inconsitency. Please provide a precise source or explain the reasons of the (apparent?) inconsitency. 
Just as a guess: It might be a typo: if the black uneployed population is 68.8 percent, the sum of all groups would be 99.7%.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.23.247.13 (talk) 11:03, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Demographics and unemployment 

message: sir / madam
with all due respect i ask , why are the guys that are doing an honest living day to day by washing cars around the areas mentioned. These guys are getting arrested by police and there equipment getting conviscated. This is now turning these guys into criminals whereby they will turn to robbery,hijacking etc etc. Hope i could be heard here by making a statement and just looking after the better interest of DBN.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.121.76.40 (talk) 15:30, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blue Lagoon / Coconut Grove 

message: The entry where Fynn assists in healing some battle wounds Shaka received is slightly incorrect. The wounds were received during a long celebratory dance, an assagay penetrated his left arm and stuck his chest deep enough for him to cough up blood. Fynn washed the cuts with chamomile tea and dressed the wounds while a witchdoctor purged Shaka. A number of others received stab wounds during the same dance and it's generally believed it was some sought of assassination attempt.
The Washing of the Spears; Donald R. Morris, 1966
Fynn also wasn't granted any land. Farewell drafted an agreement whereby Shaka granted him (Farewll) outright title to Port Natal, some 3500 square miles, on the 7th August 1824. Further the actual agreement itself though now lost, was said to be legally questionable.
The Washing of the Spears; Donald R. Morris, 1966
Eigersa (talk) 11:01, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

message: Is there a reason for two separate Reference sections?  One is smack in the middle of the page; I've never seen that done and thought they were always at the end of an article no matter what.Bobbyandbeans (talk) 21:45, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: No, there's no reason for that, and I've removed the one in the middle of the page. I wonder who put it there? - htonl (talk) 00:37, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe someone started building on the article under the original references and it just got lost in the shuffle.  Who knows what goes on with some pages ... thanks for the fix.Bobbyandbeans (talk) 13:33, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  References 

message: The maximum temperatures quoted in the table under the Climate section, are not the same as the ones referenced at http://old.weathersa.co.za/Climat/Climstats/DurbanStats.jsp
The temperatures on this source's website are actually several degrees lower.
Mikejburden (talk) 14:34, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Climate 

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message: Given that there is a section about the Europeans, who are 14-15% of the city's population and there is a section about the European settlement, wouldn't it be reasonable if there was also a section about Indians/Asians that represent around 25% of the city's population? Viet-hoian1 (talk) 06:52, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Indians/Asians / Europeans 

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message: Is this article being used as a WP:Soapbox? It seems to be a long-running gateway for Abahlali baseMjondolo stories, which are given WP:Undue weight. Park3r (talk) 14:10, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: This article is written by a number of users. Could you give some specifics about text you find POV or incorrect? Ashmoo (talk) 13:38, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Evictions and political controversy section

message: :The population of the city of Durban and central suburbs such as Durban North, Durban South and the Berea increased 10.9% between 2001 and 2011 from 536,644 to 595,061.[24][25] The :proportion of Black Africans increased while the proportion of people in all the other racial groups decreased. Black Africans increased from 34.9% to 51.1%. Indian or Asians :decreased from 27.3% to 24.0%. Whites decreased from 25.5% to 15.3%. Coloureds decreased from 10.26% to 8.59%. A new racial group, Other, was included in the 2011 census at 0.9
The census figures are being reported uncritically in this article, but these swings seem quite large, particularly for Black Africans and Whites. Was the census area changed, were there methodological issues, or did such huge demographic shifts really happen? Park3r (talk) 00:04, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Very large demographic changes 2001-2011 census

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message: Statistics South Africa, Community Survey, 2007, Basic Results Municipalities (pdf file) . Retrieved 2008-03-23. GeoffreyA (talk) 08:56, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Old references 

message: A quick Google search shows that most results are quoting the phrase straight from Durban's Wikipedia article; that is, the information is not coming from outside, seemingly. I am not a Zulu speaker, but is this word used, commonly and historically, to describe the city? GeoffreyA (talk) 14:31, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I found that this is derived from the Zulu word for the Bluff. GeoffreyA (talk) 16:04, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead section: eZibubulungwini