[Excerpt from the book ‘The Greek community in South Africa’]
The first
Greeks arrived in Durban in the 1890s and dealt with the trade. Some of the
pioneers were Spyros Metaxas, Ioannis Marinakis, Dionysis Frangos,
Theodore Kalliontzis, Panagiotis Agathangelou, Vagianos Christophorou, Athanasios Rakakiadis, Antonis Delis, A. Bozas, N. Mendonidis,
B. Mendonidis and C. Fostiras. In 1918, the Greeks established the Hellenic
Association of Natal.
