The ‘Indian Chap’: Recollections of a South African Underground Trainee in Mao's China by Nandha Naidoo

Origin date: 7 Aug 2012
Updated: 27 Nov 2020

The ‘Indian Chap’: Recollections of a South African Underground Trainee in Mao's China by Nandha Naidoo

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Little is known about the first South African underground group sent for training in China in 1961 before the Sino-Soviet breakdown. As a member of that group, for over 50 years Nandha Naidoo has not spoken publicly about this experience. Here, he describes joining Wilton Mkwayi in Prague and Raymond Mhlaba, Joe Gqabi and Patrick Mthembu in Beijing where Mao Zedong spoke with them and gives a detailed account of the training in radio communication and technology that he received with Andrew Mlangeni in Mukden/Shenyang.

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01Nandha Naidoo (2012) The ‘Indian Chap’: Recollections of a South African Underground Trainee in Mao's China, South African Historical Journal, 64:3, 707-736, DOI: 10.1080/02582473.2012.670509

Last updated · 27 Nov 2020

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South African History Online. (2020, July 22). The ‘Indian Chap’: Recollections of a South African Underground Trainee in Mao's China by Nandha Naidoo. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0150356

South African History Online (2020) 'The ‘Indian Chap’: Recollections of a South African Underground Trainee in Mao's China by Nandha Naidoo', South African History Online, 22 July. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0150356 (Accessed: 27 August 2026).

South African History Online, The ‘Indian Chap’: Recollections of a South African Underground Trainee in Mao's China by Nandha Naidoo [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0150356, (accessed 27 August 2026).

"The ‘Indian Chap’: Recollections of a South African Underground Trainee in Mao's China by Nandha Naidoo." South African History Online, 22 July 2020, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0150356. Accessed 27 Aug. 2026.

South African History Online. "The ‘Indian Chap’: Recollections of a South African Underground Trainee in Mao's China by Nandha Naidoo." South African History Online. July 22, 2020. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0150356.