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FOR Alumni and Friends OF THE DURBAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
The KwaZulu-Natal’s Indian population began arriving in the 1860s
TO PRIMARILY WORK AS INDENTURED LABOURERS ON THE SUGAR PLANTATIONS. IN 1927 1927, THOSE WITH NO FORMAL EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS WERE THREATENED WITH
REPATRIATION, LEADING TO A DRIVE IN EDUCATION, ESPECIALLY ADULT CLASSES IN LITERACY AND COMMERCIAL SUBJECTS, HELD IN A MISSION SCHOOL AND A HINDU INSTITUTE.
Afternoon classes start in August 1929
AT THE CARLISLE STREET GOVERNMENT INDIAN SCHOOL 1929 AND EVENING CLASSES AT THE HINDU TAMIL INSTITUTE IN CROSS STREET. BY THE END OF 1929, OVER 230 STUDENTS
HAD ENROLLED.
ML SULTAN TECHNIKON HAJEE MALUKMAHOMED LAPPA SULTAN
donated funds for a technical college in Durban in 1941.
MINSTER OF EDUCATION DECLARED THE ML SULTAN TECHNICAL COLLEGE AN
approved institution for Higher Education
IN 1953, THE DURBAN CITY COUNCIL PRESENTED THE COLLEGE WITH
the Title Deed to a six-acre site at Curries Fountain.
ML SULTAN TECHNIKON’S FACILITIES CONTINUED WITH A NEW SEVEN-FLOOR ACADEMIC BLOCK COMPLETED IN 1987, AND THE RELOCATION OF
the Hotel School to new premises on Ritson Road in 1989.
THE TECHNIKON ACT OF 1993 — CHALLENGES OF TRANSFORMATION AT THE END OF APARTHEID.
The revised Technikon Act allowed technikons to award degrees.
1941
1946
1953
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1987
1993
7 AUGUST 1956, THE ML SULTAN TECHNICAL COLLEGE WAS
OFFICIALLY OPENED AT THE BACK OF A THREE-STOREY 956 BUILDING FROM CENTENARY ROAD,
with 240 full-time students,
4760
PART-TIME STUDENTS.
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