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Post date: 07/08/2012
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From CBD head inland along Smith St (oneway) and onto Berea Rd. Turn right at junction with Cleaver Rd. ExtentOfProt: The property together with the so-called Satri College thereon, decribed as follows.
From CBD head inland along Smith St (oneway) and onto Berea Rd. Turn right at junction with Cleaver Rd. ExtentOfProt: The property together with the so-called Satri College thereon, decribed as follows.
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History: As a result of the ""uplift""- clause in the Cape Town Agreement concluded in 1926 between the governments of India and the Africa, the Right Honourable Mr V Srinevasa Sastri, Agent General, wanted to build a combined training school for teachers and a high school for Indians. He started a fund to which Indians in Natal contributed most generously. In apprecitation of Mr Sastri’s services to Indian education the college was named after him and wqs opened in 1929. The building contractor was Mr Percy Osborn. The Indianisation of the staff culminated in the appointment of Dr A.D. Lazarus as the first Indian principal. The Teachers’ Training Department was transferred to Springfield College of Education in 1951
Visual Description: A two-storeyed school building; in Berea style of the union period; hipped tiled roofs with projecting entrance portico; arcades tp two floors on main (entrance) elevation; Alteration: various additions have been made in the character of the original building and to the rear of the original block. Built in 1928 on land donated by the Durban City Council(six acres adjoining Currie's Fountain). The first Indian High Scool opened in 930 in Southern African; 1936 used by the Union of Natal: long association with teacher training and technical education.
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Condition: Good
Construction Date: 1928
Materials: various for different buildings in complex e.g. facebrick and brick and prefabricated : asbestos sheet and tile
Catalogue: Kearney, 1984, No: 12.06, Significance Category: Of cultural and historical significance.