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Richards Bay is South Africa 's largest Harbour (). It is situated on a 30 square kilometre lagoon of the Mhlatuze River, ''(forceful)'', on the northern coast of KwaZulu-Natal . It began as a makeshift harbour that was set up by Commodore of the Cape, Sir Frederick Richards during the Boer War of 1879 . In 1935 the Richards Bay Game Sanctuary was created to protect the ecology around the lagoon and later by 1943 it expanded into the Richards Bay Park. The town was laid-out on the shores of the lagoon in 1954 and proclaimed a town in 1969 . In 1976 Richards Bay harbour was converted into a deep water harbour with Railway and an Oil / Gas pipeline linking the port to Johannesburg . An Aluminium smelter and Fertilizer plant have been erected at the harbour. Titanium is mined from the sand dunes close to the lagoon. |
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