THE Natal Law Society has apologised posthumously to Mahatma Gandhi for opposing his 1894 application to become an attorney because he was not white. The society turned down Gandhi’s application because he was an Indian. Society president David Randles told The Star newspaper the apology extended to “all other aspirant lawyers whose access to the profession was restricted in any way on the basis of racial grounds”. Gandhi, India’s renowned human rights activist, was the first black man to apply to become an attorney in formerly white-controlled South Africa.