Chesterville is a town in eThekwini in the KwaZulu-Natal province of

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. Village between Cato Manor and Westville, some 13 km west of

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. Named after T J Chester, a former manager of the Native Administration Department of Durban. The writer

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was reburied in his Chesterville, his childhood home, after his body was returned from the

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, where he died in exile.

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Populated places in eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality {{KwaZuluNatal-geo-stub