Tongaat

Tongaat is a town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, about 40 kilometres north of Durban and 28 kilometres south of KwaDukuza. It now forms part of eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, or the Greater Durban area. The King Shaka International Airport is 8 kilometres road. The R102 is a thoroughfare through the town from KwaDukuza and Ballito in the north to Verulam in the south. Its population is mostly people of Indian descent. The area is home to the oldest Indian community in South Africa, having been where the first indentured Indian laborers settled in 1860 to work in the sugar-cane plantations. Much of the architectural style in the town was the work of Ivan Mitford-Barberton, and many buildings are in the Cape Dutch style of architecture. ()