Gandhiji went to Natal in South ** to represent Dada Abdulla and Company in 1893.
Though Gandhi intended to be at Natal only three months, he ended up living in South ** for twenty long years. He opposed the Apartheid policy that discriminated between dark skinned and pale skinned people.
He invested a new tool of protest called ‘Satyagraha’ and formulated its dos and don ts. Many South Africans take pride in declaring that “You sent us unformed Gandhi and We sent back the complete of Gandhi”.
Gandhi conceived the protest based on Sathyagraha and Non-**** for the first time, He founded Natal Indian Congress. Gandhi published periodical ‘Indian Opinion’ for the first time to express his views and formulated the opinion of people in order to intensify the struggle further he started ‘Passive Resistance Organization’.
He started ‘Tolstoy Farm’ and Phoenix Farm’ to train the people in Sathyagraha and non-violent .peace struggles. Many people like Hermann Kallenbach, his wife Kasturba, **** lent their helping hand to Gandhiji. Finally, feeling pressured by the agitations led by Gandhiji, the government of South **, withdrew all restrictions and prohibitions against Indians and ***** people.
Once, Gandhiji was traveling from Pretoria and Durban in first class railway compartment. He was thrown out of the compartment by a white officer. This made him to realize the hardships faced by Indians in the various places of South.
**. He himself has recorded that there were more hash discriminations in South ** than in England. After leading a long struggle in South **, Gandhiji arrived back to India in 1915.
