I DON’T think we really dealt with the origins of tension. We should recall that when the first indentured labourers were brought to Natal, now KwaZulu-Natal, in 1860, and subsequently right up to the beginning of the last century, it was a period where slavery was abolished in most of the colonising countries. Most of Europe had abolished slavery in one form or the other and indenture was regarded as a “great experiment” by the British.
The land was basically owned by the indigenous population on which British settlers decided to make their homes, and, in their plantations, they sought to get good workers.
In Zulu culture, men did not till the fields. That disability
