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    Indian settlers displayed initiative

    Nov 04, 2020 4 minutes
    DUNCAN DU BOIS
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    WITHIN 10 years of the arrival of the first indentured Indians in Natal, a quiet socio-economic transformation commenced.

    Having completed their indenture contracts, they became commercial pioneers to the extent that in 1875 Sir Garnet Wolseley, the Administrator of Natal, said that “without Indians the commerce of Natal would languish and its revenue would be seriously reduced”.

    Released from toil in the cane fields and with few desiring to return to India, the majority lost no time in generating an independent living.

    Following the suspension of indentured immigration between 1866 and 1874 and with African labour in short supply, there was great

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