Compensation (M12)

Name:Compensation

Shakashead started as an informal settlement of Indians, though older dwellings would appear to be farm-built. Formal houses were built after 1994. These number 457. Phase 2 of the housing development programme, which envisages a further 800 has been approved and will extend south to Compensation, adjacent to Ballito. Other housing is primarily composed of informal shacks, some sturdier and better weather-protected than others.


Shell maddens containing early Iron Age pottery fragments have been found at Umhlanga Rocks, Ballito and. Shaka’s Rock Village, dating back to roaming Bantu civilisation in the period from 400 A.D.
The site of a later iron-age village, of the Bantu, Lala people, can be visited in the Shaka Valley, near Stanger, dating back to about 1500.

ICE AGE
In the Groutville area, there ate sites of pre-historic Ice-age glacial activities like wise in the Umvoti, Tongaati and Mbozambo valleys.

SHAKA
Shaka was born in Zululand in 1787, his mother being Princess Nandi, and his father, the Zulu King, Senzangakhona. In 1816, on the death of his father, this mighty warrior leader Shaka became King of the Zulus. At this time, he was living at his royal settlement, "Bulawayo" in the heart, of Zululand. He was engaged in forming a vast and very effective Zulu army of warriors (Impi).

In the early 1800's the area was thickly wooded, with some open patches or grassland, upon which King Shaka and the Zulu peoples grazed their vast herds of cattle.

http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/places/villages/kwazuluNatal/Stanger/chronology.htm



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