Cato Manor is a settlement located 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) from the city centre of Durban, South Africa. It was formed when Indian market gardeners came to settle in the area some time after it was given to George Christopher Cato in 1865, who was the first mayor of Durban in 1854.

On 13 January 1949 a racial incident occurred in Grey Street, sparking a spate of violent anti-Indian attacks that extended to Cato Manor. This began when an Indian stallholder caught an African boy stealing and punished him for the offence.

Ronnie Govender’s “At the edge” and other Cato Manor Stories describes the 1949 riots, which were sparked off by an incident in Grey Street where an Indian stall-holder had caught an african boy stealing and had punished him. Africans began …

Mar 16, 2011 · 13 January, African-Indian hatred reaches boiling point when a racial incident in Grey Street sparks a violent anti-Indian war that spreads to Cato Manor. A two-day orgy of murder, looting and arson in the slum-land makes world headlines as …

The story of Cato Manor’s contemporary history will be recounted concisely, with emphasis on issues that inform these themes. Four main periods have been identified: the early history upto the mid-1960s; the height of the apartheid era from mid-1960s to 1990; the Forum period 1990 to mid- 1993; and the first two years of the Cato Manor

Oct 24, 2020 · Durban - Cato Manor is famous for the race riots of 1949 and the women-led beer hall protests a decade later. “But what about the slaughter of nine police officers on a patrol to seek out...

Its name derives from George Cato, This paper traces Cato Manor’s history since the first mayor of Durban, whose farm it originally 1950s, focusing on recent measures to reconstruct the area and to integrate it into metropolitan Durban.

Cato Manor in Durban once attracted attention from around the world because it was where rioting broke out in 1959 in protest against the city's beerhalls and the looming prospect of mass forced removals in which the residents would be uprooted from their homes in terms of the notorious Group Areas Act, and resettled in townships.

Dec 22, 2012 · Ronnie Govender’s “At the edge” and other Cato Manor Stories describes the 1949 riots, which were sparked off by an incident in Grey Street where an Indian stallholder had caught an African boy stealing and had punished him. Africans began attacking Indian shops, businesses and residents.

Situated about five kilometres from the centre of Durban, Cato Manor is an area rich in cultural and political heritage. It was named after Durban’s first mayor, George Christopher Cato.