‘African Gandhi’: The South African War and the Limits of Imperial Identity by Goolam Vahed
… the late 1890s there were at least 15,000 Indians in the Transvaal [10] , 700 to 1,000 at the Kimberley diamond fields … the Orange Free State (OFS) barred them totally, in the Transvaal Indians were denied citzenship, compelled to carry … 1899 impacted severely on Indians in northern Natal and Transvaal. In northern Natal republican commandos had laid …