Mick Goss - Anyone with even the slightest interest in the history of the Midlands, knows the name ‘Moor’. The Moors are scattered across the length and breadth of the neighbourhood, and most students connect them with the former Prime Minister of the colony, Sir Frederick Moor, the only man besides the Lord Chief Justice De Villiers to emerge from the Union talks in Durban with a knighthood. Yet, if you were measuring the Moors by their contributions to the enterprise and development of the region, that accolade would surely fall on the shoulders of brother John William Moor, himself a senator in the first Union government, but remembered more for the fact that he was the founding father of both the Natal Creamery (modernly styled as NCD Dairies, the biggest dairy business on the continent), and Eskort Bacon Factory (one of the biggest meat-processing plants in Africa). Read more... #Moor #NCD #Eskort #KZNHistory
Posted on: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 11:10:38 +0000
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