Jigsaw of colonial labour and indenture
LAND, labour and livelihoods are among the themes at the heart of the disruption of human lives across the world for at least the past 500 years.
In South Africa, we are familiar with how the migrant labour system damaged settled African family life.
Like with the pillaging of India, the eventual destruction of the Zulu kingdom in 1879 meant that the British could reap obscene profits of those forced off their ancestral land to labour in the gold and diamond mines.
In this 160th year of the first Indian indenture to colonial Natal our interest has focused
