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SA Indians should be patriots

SOUTH Africans of Indian origin urgently need a mindset shift. They do not belong to a homogeneous group and should stop this nonsense about India being the motherland.

If you’re born and raised in South Africa, a descendent of those who arrived as indentured labourers on the SS Truro in 1860, and worked hard to successfully establish their roots here, you are South African, first and foremost.

Many are united in the belief that this, not the country of Modi but that of Mandela’s, is our motherland. It is our South Africa and belongs to all who live in it.

A mindset shift is

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