Letter from Phyllis Naidoo to Theodora

To the people of the West, the inhabitants of India are the least understood and the mosteasily misunderstood of all men.

The aim of this study is twofold, namely, to provide an in-depth and
detailed exploration of the transnational migrations of a sample of
professional Indian1 women in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal; and, to
contextualize the changing identities of Indian women in South Africa,

THIRD SESSION, SIXTH COUNCIL. - L. C. No. 1,
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REPORT
OF
COOLIE COMMISSION,
APPOINTED TO INQUIRE INTO THE CONDITION OF THE
INDIAN IMMIGRANTS
IN THE
COLONY OF NATAL;

List of Laws (From Chinappa, K History of the Asiatic Bazaar in Pretoria) 

The urban poor and their condition has not been a specially popular theme in
local history. This is surprising given that they were in so many ways the
direct result of other significant events and policies of nineteenth century

In Natal, the arrival of the Indentured Indian in 1860 marked the beginnings of an organised scheme whereby approximately 152,184 Indians arrived to seek gainful employment in a fledgling sugar industry.

The British settlers’ (c1840s) saw sugar as a viable export commodity but there was a serious shortage of labour. The fate of the colony “hangs on a thread, the thread is labour (Natal Mercury, April 1859).

Apartheid Legislation in South Africa
Starting in 1948, the Nationalist Government in South
Africa enacted laws to define and enforce segregation.