More than a century later, the descendants of indentured Indian labourers, stand to lose their livelihoods as the company faces collapse
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The recent violence has been a cruel reminder for many South African Indians of the 1949 anti-Indian pogroms in KwaZulu-Natal
The past week’s violence and looting – and the potential for an orchestrated race war in the province – have evoked haunting scenes from a bitter and bloody history
In the book, The Indian Africans, academic Kiru Naidoo explores the society of colonial Natal in the late 1800s to early 1900
In this Sound Africa podcast, Candice Nolan tries to find the answers she is looking for by looking in an old bible
Does Ms Pillay know that the ancestors of most in the Indian community came to South Africa as labourers on the sugar plantations?
Steve Biko’s vibrant, liberating philosophy is the only solution to the vexed ‘national question’, writes Andile Mngxitama.
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/ 17 October 2008
Book reviews: <i>The Eye of the Leopard</i> by Henning Mankell and <i>’Sister outsiders'</i> Devarakshanam Govinden.