Chesterville is a town in
eThekwini in the
KwaZulu-Natal
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province of
South Africa
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.
The village lies between
Cato Manor and
Westville, some 13 km west of
Durban
Durban ( ; , from meaning "bay, lagoon") is the third-most populous city in South Africa, after Johannesburg and Cape Town, and the largest city in the Provinces of South Africa, province of KwaZulu-Natal.
Situated on the east coast of South ...
. It is named after T. J. Chester, a former manager of the Native Administration Department of Durban.
The writer
Nat Nakasa
Nathaniel Ndazana Nakasa (12 May 193714 July 1965), better known as Nat Nakasa, was a South African journalist and short story writer.
Early life
Nat Nakasa was born in outside Durban, South Africa, on 12 May 1937; his mother Alvina was a teac ...
was reburied in Chesterville which was his childhood home, after his body was returned from the
United States
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where he died in exile.
References
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Populated places in eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality
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