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  • A city of eastern South Africa on Durban Bay, an inlet of the Indian Ocean. Visited by Vasco da Gama as early as 1497, the site was settled by the British in 1824. Durban is a major seaport and year-round resort.

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  • proper noun Seaport in Natal Province, Republic of South Africa.

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  • noun a port city in eastern South Africa on the Indian Ocean; resort and industrial center

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Examples

  • DURBAN, South Africa - South African Red Cross officials appealed Friday for urgent donations for flood victims around the eastern cities of Durban and Pietermaritzburg.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • DURBAN, South Africa, March 9 (Reuter) - Police said on Wednesday they were investigating 64 counts of culpable homicide against the driver of a commuter train that crashed near Durban on

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • DURBAN, March 19 (Reuter) - About 120 Zulus on Saturday vowed they would occupy an KwaMashu stadium to prevent the ANC from holding an election rally in the township near Durban.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • DURBAN, March 26 (Reuter) - SADF troops moved into Bhambayi squatter settlement south of Durban on Saturday after four people, including two toddlers, were shot dead in ANC-Inkatha clashes overnight, witnesses and police said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • DURBAN, South Africa - Twenty-five crew members were rescued by helicopter from a Taiwanese fishing vessel that ran aground near the South African port of Durban, officials said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • DURBAN, South Africa - The bodies of at least seven people were found in Bhambayi black township near the port of Durban early, the eve of national safety and security day, police said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • DURBAN, March 1 (Reuter) - ANC President Nelson Mandela and Inkatha leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi went into a face-to-face meeting on their own in Durban on Tuesday.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • DURBAN, Sept 11 (Reuter) - Two men were shot dead in overnight violence in Bhambayi squatter settlement outside Durban, police said on Sunday.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • DURBAN, March 1 (Reuter) - ANC President Nelson Mandela and Inkatha leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi went into a face-to-face meeting on their own in Durban on Tuesday.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • DURBAN - At least 11 blacks were killed when attackers raided an African National Congress aligned section of a black squatter settlement near South Africa's port city of Durban, police said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

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