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Natalia

Main article: Natalia.

The Republic of Natalia was formed in 1838 by the Voortrekkers during the Great Trek in the wake of their victory over the Zulus of King Dingane at the Battle of Blood River.

It is established under the Treaty , proposed by Piet Retief , that Dingane approved before denouncing and killing Retief and his companions.

In 1843 , almost 6,000 Boer live Natalia.

Worried disorders caused by the presence of Boer settlers from the local African population and the pressure it could cause on the eastern borders of the Cape Colony or its annexation by a foreign power, the British invaded the small republic 1842 by occupying the port of Durban ^{A British colony}

The Republic of Natalia was annexed by the United Kingdom in 1843 and became a colony British administered by the Governor of the Cape Colony.

In 1856 , the colonists of Natal 10 000 get the autonomy law. The economy of the colony is centered on the cultivation of sugarcane. Refusing to appeal to Africans confined to territorial reserves of the colony, the British government called on his Indian and Asian colonies they provide sufficient manpower for economic development of sugar cane plantations.

Between 1866 and 1911 , more than 150,000 contract workers, mainly from Madras and Calcutta in India , landed in Natal who were joined thousands of Indians Gujarati merchants who established themselves as freely.

The duration of employment contracts were 5 years, renewable once. After this, the Indians were offered a return ticket to their country of origin or a plot of land to farm, an option that two-thirds of them chose, finally fixing their abode in South Africa.

In 1893 , Natal became a full-fledged colony of the British Crown , with its own governor.

In 1897 , Zululand was annexed to Natal.

A province of South Africa

From 1910 to 1994 , Natal is a province of South Africa.

Religions

In Natal, the sect of Shembe , which includes two million devotees has been created by a prophet Zulu in the early twentieth ^century. Christian animist but the Shembe are courted by the Inkatha and the ANC.

KwaZulu-Natal

Natal was renamed KwaZulu-Natal during the first multiracial elections in April 1994 , when the Bantustan Autonomous KwaZulu merged with the province of Natal white.