Developments:

Some important happenings by which the older citizens of Hlabisa, who are not familiar with the calendar, date key events in their lives:

  • The year the sugar mill was built (1916)
  • The year the floods washed away the railway bridge (1925)
  • The year of the plague of locusts (1932)
  • The year Chief Mtubatuba died (1955)
  • The year the N2 was tarred (1962)
  • The year people were moved [from Richards Bay to Ntambanana] (1976)
  • The year Steve Biko died (1977)
  • The year of the drought (1982)
  • The year the Umfolozi bridge collapsed (1984)
  • The year President Mandela was released (1990)
  • The year of the first democratic elections (1994)