Ashwin Desai
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WE ARE THE POORS: COMMUNITY STRUGGLES IN POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA |
DRAWING EXTENSIVELY on his own experiences as a community activist in the greater Durban region of South Africa, Ashwin Desai provides an overview of changes in popular protest politics in South Africa in the post-apartheid era. |
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Indenture and Indianness in South Africa, 1860–1913 |
Beginning in the mid-19th century, about 1.3 million Indian contract labourers were exported to Mauritius, Jamaica, British Guiana, Trinidad, St Lucia, Granada and Natal to satisfy the demand for labour that was both cheap and docile (Meer 1980: 3). |