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May 1939: Indian women indentured workers leave the sugar cane fields after a day’s work on a plantation at Mount Edgecombe, Natal. Photo: Reg Speller/Fox Photos/Getty Images
ASHWIN DESAI

South African Indian literature explores identity

Books and academic articles tell us our own stories and help others to understand them

  • Aarti Bhana
7 min read
The Truro docked in South Africa 160 years ago. (Photo: Claude Pavard)
COLONIALISM

Indians in South Africa, a historical excerpt

In the book, The Indian Africans, academic Kiru Naidoo explores the society of colonial Natal in the late 1800s to early 1900

  • Kiru Naidoo
8 min read