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Honouring local sugar estate communities
Sunday Tribune
|November 02, 2025
ACADEMIC, activist and community champion, Selvan “Patchie” Naicker, is launching his debut book that pays tribute to the lives, language, and legacies of Mount Edgecombe’s sugar estate communities.
The book, The Mount Edgecombe Chronicles — Echoes of the Canefields, blends poetic storytelling with historical research and celebrates resilience, unity and cultural transformation.
He will launch the book on November 16, the date that commemorates the historic day on which the first Indians landed in Durban aboard the SS Truro in 1860.
Naicker, who lives in Mount Edgecombe, said the book is a community-rooted anthology that documents the lived experiences of families shaped by the sugarcane estates.
“It is not merely a history book. It is a cultural archive, a poetic memoir and a linguistic celebration. The book is the culmination of years of storytelling, dialect documentation and tribute writing.
“It’s not just my story, but the story of a community, a dialect, and a legacy that refused to be forgotten," said Naicker.
This story is from the November 02, 2025 edition of Sunday Tribune.
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