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Gandhi's Johannesburg |
The publication on Gandhi's Johannesburg will be officially launched on 10 August 2000.
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"I learnt during all those years to love Johannesburg even though it was a mining camp. It was in Johannesburg that I found my most precious friends. It was in Johannesburg that the foundation for the great struggle of Passive Resistance was laid in the September of 1906 ... Johannesburg, therefore, had the holiest of all the holy associations that Mrs Gandhi and I will carry back to India ..." Mohandas Gandhi, 1914. |
From a young mining town in South Africa came ideas of peaceful struggle which spread across the world. Formulated by Mohandas Gandhi in the early 1900s, the philosophy of Satyagraha became an inspiration to millions around the world.
For a decade, during the formative years of his philosophy, Gandhi lived in and around Johannesburg where he established a prosperous law practice, though his legal work was soon overtaken by his political activism in support of human rights.
During that decade, he made the streets and suburbs of the city his own, changing homes frequently and walking tirelessly.
Tolstoy Farm and the other places and buildings captured in words and pictures in this evocative book are landmarks of Gandhi's personal and political growth. The sites featured span huge social divides, from the slums and shanties of the old Indian Location to the comfortable suburbs reserved for whites. Considered as a whole, they and the events surrounding them are an essential part of the Gandhian experience.
Eric Itzkin, a specialist in African Studies, has worked as a research librarian, archivist and museum curator. He is the Curator: Cultural History at MuseuMAfricA.
Witwatersrand University Press ISBN 1 86814 361 9/June 2000 245x200mm, 128 pp, color and b/w illustrations, maps, paper World rights R 140.00.
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