Inanda

Inanda or eNanda (isiZulu: pleasant place, also possibly, level-topped hill) is a township in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, located 30 kilometers north-west of Durban’s central business district. It is part of eThekwini, the Greater Durban Metropolitan Municipality.

Inanda Township is primarily populated by Zulu-speaking Black Africans and is the birthplace of the syncretic Nazareth Baptist Church. It is also the home of John Langalibalele Dube, the first president of the African National Congress (ANC), as well as Mahatma Gandhi’s residence and base of operations.

Inanda Township was nothing more than a haven for the few local Indigenous farmers in the 1600s. Until European settlers arrived in the area in the late 1700s.