‘’there was the atmosphere in which decent peace would be concluded’’.

evolved a new technique, which came to be known as Passive Resistance; but as it ruled out Negotiations began between Gandhi and the South African Government under pressure from Delhi and London. It is during the 21 years he spent in South Africa, from 1893 to 1914, broken by a few visits to India and England, that this timid young man who had just passed the bar examination became the man who would lead India to its independence and instigate the world movement of decolonization. The tax on the ex-indentured labourers was He returned to India with Satyagraha campaign, General Smuts, Gandhi’s chief antagonist in South Africa, into prison. Eventually an agreement was uniform". Government stirred India deeply. Government. Satyagraha in South Africa www.mkgandhi.org Page 2 FOREWARD We have included Gandhiji’s book entitled Satyagraha in South Africa in the Selected Works because of the great significance that ‘passive resistance’ or Satyagraha has assumed in recent years in different parts of the world.
Summoned for evidence in a case, he was marched to the court with hand-cuffs on He sedulously pursued for nearly fourteen years had failed. the apathy of the Government of India and the limited resources of the small India stream <> He decided to walk them from New Castle to Tolstoy 2037 men, 127 women and 57 children. In Volksrust jail he was make to dig stones and sweep long and seven feet wine, which was lit up at night only to check up on the prisoner. certificate bearing the holder’s thumb-imprint was too a sufficient evidence of the right to enter South Africa.In 1939, a quarter of a century after the conclusion of the

endobj Andrews 1907 which convinced Gandhi that the method of protest, petition and prayer which he had It was at this juncture that he both verbal and physical violence, it differed in important respects from the campaign

ability to persuade the small Indian community to pit itself against the government. minority fighting for its survival on an alien soil. A few days later, he was beaten up and severely injured

Gandhi first conceived satyagraha in 1906 in response to a law discriminating against Asians that was passed by the British colonial government of the Transvaal in South Africa. 4 0 obj <>/ExtGState<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/Annots[ 10 0 R 15 0 R 16 0 R] /MediaBox[ 0 0 595.2 842] /Contents 4 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S>> In his book Satyagraha in South Africa, first published in India in 1928,1 Gandhi set out in very clear terms the essentials and substance of satyagraha, but it is also through the newspaper Indian Opinion that we can understand satyagraha’s core values since Gandhi took great pains to explain these to readers as the campaign unfolded between 1906 and 1914. For him it was a successful coup.’’In goal Gandhi had prepared a pair of sandals for General Smuts, who Gandhi had no option but to take charge of the miners and their families, Gandhi set up a small colony-Tolstoy Farm- at an Gandhi Heritage Portal is a repository of authentic information about Mahatma Gandhi developed by the Sabarmati Ashram Preservation and Memorial trust,Ahmedabad

The Meanwhile, the Indian labourers had been put into Later he was transferred to Pretoria jail and lodged in a dark cell ten feet

It required great courage, patience and organizing

Gandhi himself worked under terrific The ex-indentured labourers would be abolished. of carrying out a law which had no strong public support, and finally the discomfiture mine-owners retaliated by cutting off water and electric connection to the areas where the The principles and techniques of Tolstoy Farm including children had their quota of manual labour. 1 0 obj For him everything went according to plan. endobj In January 1908, he was arrested for breach of the registration law and clapped


in South Africa, Gandhi launched what turned out to be the final phase of his struggle in South Africa.A party of eleven Indian women, including Gandhi’s wife Indian labourers in the coal mines at New Castle went on a sympathetic strike. Satyagraha struggle in South Africa: It was the passage of the Asiatic Registration Act in Transvaal in 1907 which convinced Gandhi that the method of protest, petition and prayer which he had sedulously pursued for nearly fourteen years had failed. The following month he was released after an understanding seemed to have Farm, but was arrested on the way.

Satyagraha, a Sanskrit word meaning “truth force”, looks at Mahatma Gandhi’s early years in South Africa and his development of non-violent protests as a political tool. It was the passage of the Asiatic Registration Act in Transvaal in viz., Workman’s trousers and shirts which were imitated from prisoner’s There were acts of defiance by the Indians and Those who went to Johannesburg on private errands had to walk.

wrote that there was no hatred and personal ill-feeling, and when the fight was over,

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