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… compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer The salvation of the Indian people in this country lay in a united front of … however much the outside world might help them. The Indian people should, therefore, devote greater energy than … interview by Mr. M.D. Naidoo, Joint Secretary of the Natal Indian Congress, who was released on Tuesday morning, after …

… resistance movement in which about a third of adult Indian males in the Transvaal went to prison. He had already ceased to limit his attention to the status of the Indian community and his newspaper, Indian Opinion, began to denounce the increasing oppression …

… resister in response to the decision of the South African Indian Congress which totally opposes the Asiatic Land Tenure … this decision for the removal of the difficulties of the Indian community and for the upholding of the honour of the … of land, land which was prohibited or restricted from Indian occupation by the new Asiatic Act. In accordance with …

… blacks in the Cape, it would appear that those from the Indian sub-continent constituted about 31.7 percent in 1705, …        3.3 percent Bengal                       13.3    " Indian coasts and other Indian                      6.7    " Macassarese Buginese     …

… in South Africa subsequent to the UNO decision, the Natal Indian Congress has written to the Crime Minister, General … and South Africa may talk Talks for the settlement of the Indian question are proceeding and it is likely that a Round … Conference between the two Governments - South Africa and Indian - will eventuate as a result. General Smuts, the Prime …

… to India and pressure was exerted by European creditors on Indian merchants to force them into insolvency. At the last stage of the satyagraha in 1913, when Indian workers went on strike, they were subjected to brutal … Gandhiji in Satyagraha in South Africa , and earlier in Indian Opinion , wrote moving accounts in tribute to four …

… as homogeneous groupings.6 This study focuses on the small Indian Muslim group. The broad objectives, to examine the … not only were there competing voices of authority among Indian migrants, but serious differences existed between the … two largest groups of Muslims in South Africa, Malay and Indian.8 The majority of Indian Muslims settled in KwaZulu …

… African President P.W. Botha fires the government's only Indian Cabinet Minister, Amichand Rajbansi, with effect from … 1989. He also removes him from the leadership of the Indian House of Parliament, and the Indian "mini- cabinet", as well as Minister of Housing for …

… about the same time as they were reviving the Natal Indian Congress . Biko had by then broken away from NUSAS to …

… Bhawani Sannyassi Dayal, journalist and campaigner for Indian rights in SA, died in Ajmer, India. Dayal was one of the organisers of the Indian strike led by Mohandas Gandhi at Newcastle in 1913, and was a representative of the Natal Indian Congress (NIC). References: Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) New …

… Fountain Sports Ground on Sunday afternoon when the Natal Indian Congress held its mass meeting to explain to the Indian people the implications of the proposed legislation to … Singh said, "The proposed measure would strangulate the Indian economically. It sounded the economic death-knell of …

… Grey Street is the teaming business and residential Indian sector of the Durban City Centre , and is also the educational, cultural and business heart of; the Natal Indian Community. The significance of the area, in the life of the South African Indian community, can be gauged from the fact that up until …

… From the book:  A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal … speech of Abdul Karim is reproduced below. Source: Indian Views , 13 January 1928. Gentlemen, thank you for the … on matters of vital importance to the well-being of the Indian community. I confess this is an hour that will fall to …

… 1: POLITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE STRUGGLE A. SOUTH AFRICA The Indian people The present leadership of the Natal Indian took over in October 1945. The Indian people of Natal had decided to give the new policy …

… Natal Indian Congress (NIC) led by Dr. G. M. Naicker, met in an … against the Ghetto Act or The Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act no 28 of 1946, which was passed the … previous day. Click here , to read E.S. Reddy's article on Indian Passive Resistance in South Africa from 1946-48. …

… Congress Resister was published by the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC), which was formed at the turn of the … non-existent. At this time, some activists in the Indian community were involved in Black Consciousness … meeting was held in Lenasia to discuss the response of the Indian community to the forthcoming elections for the South …

… them. See South African History Online’s Timeline of Anti-Indian legislation for a closer look at this series of … of pegging laws which limited the freedom of Indian South Africans. Pegging refers to the prevention of free selling or purchasing of land, meaning that Indian land owners were neither allowed to sell land already …

… segregation. Other legislation targeting Black African and Indian people were also passed, such as the Native Trust and … Act among other laws sparked forced removals of African, Indian and Coloured people from their areas of residence. …

… and retained their identity to a degree. In America many Indian nations were destroyed by the European desire to …

… India. In 1893 he accepted a year-long contract from an Indian law firm work in Natal, South Africa. His time in … government and was also the co-founder of the Natal Indian Congress (NIC). On his return to India, he became the … political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement and used satyagraha - resistance …

… From the book:  A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal … organisations and the individuals were as follows: Natal Indian Congress ”” Abdoola Hajee Adam, Dada Osman; Natal Indian Patriotic Union ”” P. Subramania Aiyar, Anthony D. …

… the Smuts government racial policies. The South African Indian Congress (SAIC) assists Dr. A.B Xuma to come into contact with the Indian delegation at the United Nations (UN). The Natal … the minutes click here . 9 March, Dr Monty Naicker ( Natal Indian Congress ), Dr Yusuf Dadoo ( Transvaal Indian Congress …

… From the book:  A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal … Thursday evening (January 13) Indians in the heart of the Indian business area were set upon by Africans. They did not … But at midday on Friday a veritable human cyclone hit the Indian business area. Hordes of Africans, armed with a varied …

… Report on Passive Resistance, 13 June 1946-13 May 1947 The Indian People The present leadership of the Natal Indian Congress took over in October 1945. The Indian people of Natal had decided to give the new policy …

… that Japan would overrun all the allied colonies in the Indian Ocean, and use these colonies as bases to launch … and Africa, as well as deny the British access to the Indian Ocean. Fortunately Japan decided to direct their war … States Navy. Had they persisted in their course in the Indian  Ocean, the outcome of the Second World War could have …

… injured by a compatriot, who accused him of betraying the Indian cause. In 1906, the Transvaal government promulgated a new Act forcing registration of the colony's Indian population. At a mass protest meeting held in … While the government was triumphant in repressing the Indian protesters, the public outcry stemming from the …

… Unbeknown to many, the migration of Africans to the Indian sub-continent dates back as early as the first … slave trade, many Africans who came to inhabit the Indian sub-continent rose to positions of great prominence … in their service in the cavalry of many prominent Indian rulers [2] .Indians of African extract, also referred …

… elected as Prime Minister. The (Coloured) Labour Party, (Indian) Reformed Party and Inkatha formed the South African … Council consisting of 60 members of the Chinese, Coloured, Indian and white communities. The Taxation of Blacks … 131 of 165 seats in parliament. The Anti - South African Indian Council Committee and the Transvaal Anti-SAIC …

… acute difficulties of communication’. [28] When indentured Indian workers of the Natal sugar plantations arrived from … It is worth noting, however, that it is not influenced by Indian dialects, as argued by Cole. [30] Indeed, the Indian languages had no economic value for interactions with …

… charter to the Dutch East India Company to establish an Indian trading empire in the East. 1652 The Dutch East India … people for the first time. They are mainly from around the Indian Ocean, Mocambique, Madagascar, Mauritius. 1700 … passes Abolition of Slave Trade Act, outlawing the Trans-Indian Oceanic slave trade. It was now illegal to be a slave …