Attend my fable if your ears be clean,
In fair Banana Land we lay our scene -
South Africa, renowned both far and wide
For politics and little else beside
(Roy Campbell, The Wayzgoose, 1928)
Why all the bananas? Well, Durban is called The Banana City, KwaZulu-Natal is The Banana Province, and people from KwaZulu-Natal are called Banana Boys and Banana Girls.