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Mahatma gandhi said5/10/2023 ![]() These assaults on his dignity, and the knowledge of the humiliations faced by Indians, did not dishearten him but brought out the best in his personality – a strong sense of duty and an urge to serve humanity. Travelling to Pretoria soon after his arrival in Durban, he was thrown off a train, assaulted by a coachman and denied a hotel room in Johannesburg - all because of his colour. A 23-year-old barrister with an unsuccessful career in India, he had accepted aone-year assignment, with a modest salary, to assist the lawyer of an Indian merchant in Natal, hoping to find better prospects in the new land. Gandhi had arrived in South Africa in May 1893. That was the first of many imprisonments of Gandhi and the first non-violent challenge to racist rule in South Africa. Gandhi gladly went to prison to enjoy “free hospitality” at “His Majesty’s hotel”, as did 150 other resisters. ![]() The magistrate, however, sentenced him to two months simple imprisonment. ![]() He asked for the heaviest penalty – six months’ imprisonment with hard labour – for organising defiance of this “Black Act” by the Indian community. Gandhi, an attorney with a lucrative practice in Johannesburg, appeared before the magistrate’s court for defying an anti- Asiatic law and disobeying an order to leave the Transvaal within 48 hours. ![]() Mahatma Gandhi, South Africa and SatyagrahaĪ century ago, on 10 January 1908, M. ![]()
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