- Greytown, KwaZulu-Natal
Greytown is a town situated on the banks of the
Umvoti River in a richly fertiletimber -producing area ofKwaZulu-Natal ,South Africa .History
Greytown was established in the 1850s and named after the governor of the
Cape Colony SirGeorge Edward Grey who later became Premier of New Zealand. ALutheran church was built in 1854. A church bell which was brought to the town for theDutch Reformed Church in 1861 to summon the Dutch and English congregations was the centre of a series of theological arguments. It was stolen and buried, only to be found 74 years later upon the construction of some cottages. A strikingly designed Town Hall was opened in 1904. In 1906 following a poll tax and other oppressive conditions placed on theZulu s, theBambatha Rebellion took place.Trivia
* The final resting place of
Sarie Marais is at Greytown. Sarie was a famousVoortrekker woman who died, aged 37, having her 11th child. She is immortalised by the song of the same name, now indelible part of South African culture.
*Second Boer War General and the first Prime Minister of theUnion of South Africa ,Louis Botha was born on a farm 5 km south from Greytown.
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