POL Pot "decided to dispense with the past altogether…. In Cambodia the cities were to be wiped out, maps thrown away, everything gone. No documents. Nothing. A brave new world." — Jeanette Winterson"India gave us a Mohandas, we gave them a Mahatma" is the iconic phrase used to describe Gandhi’s African journey. It is true many of Gandhi’s seminal ideas, such as satyagraha (nonviolent resistance) were born here. Arriving as a besuited English gentleman and leaving wearing a dhoti and his head shaved, he is firmly ensconced in SA’s pantheon of liberation heroes.Despite this, there has been much debate about how Gandhi related to Africans. Nelson Mandela was pretty clear when in 1998 he said: "It was around this region that Mahatma Gandhi spent so much of his time conducting the struggle of the people of SA."It was here that he taught that the destiny of the Indian community was inseparable from that of the oppressed African majority. That is why, amongst other things, Mahatma Gandhi ...
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