The Padavatan Six and the 1917 Natal Floods
… Flats area, rich in alluvial soil, was made up of a large community of ‘free Indians’ (labourers released from their … indenture on the sugar cane fields of Natal). By 1917, the community was made of over 2,500 people who built wood and … Mariemuthoo Padavatan, one of the leaders of a small community of seine-netters who lived and worked for …