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    Defeating a legal tsunami

    Nov 18, 2020 3 minutes
    DUNCAN DU BOIS

    IN A LETTER published in the Natal Mercury on September 5, 1895, Mahatma Gandhi asked: “Having invited the Indians to the colony, how can the responsible colonists curse them?

    “How can they escape the natural consequence of the introduction of Indian labour?”

    Yet during the years 1894 to 1897, the Natal government unleashed a tsunami of statutes intended to marginalise and discourage Indian settlement.

    Since the 1880s, John Robinson, Mercury editor and senior politician, had maintained that once Natal obtained

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