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    Easter and indenture in colonial Natal

    Mar 27, 2024 4 minutes
    CONVERGENCE OF RELIGIOUS PRACTICES

    OUR Good Friday diaries match perfectly. We start with a celebration of the Lord’s passion at the Catholic Church. Next is the historic communion at the Amman temple in Isipingo Rail. Rounding off the day will be an interfaith iftaar at the Kingsmead Cricket Ground with our Muslim brothers and sisters observing the Ramzaan fast.

    We are both ancestrally Tamil Hindus but our faith behaviours come from the diversity of our upbringing and rooted in the significance of Good Friday and Easter, to Indian indentured people in colonial Natal.

    From Muharram to Theemedhi (fire walking) to the annual pilgrimages of the venerated temples at Isipingo and Mount Edgecombe, among others, this holy time

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