32,000 Indian labourers went to Uganda as indentured labourers ... wanted to build this railway to improve transport in their east African colonies. Being able to travel by railway made it ...

KwaZulu-Natal Premier Thamsanqa Ntuli earlier today announced the construction of a monument honouring the resilience and legacy of Indian indentured labourers, set to be completed ahead of the ...

In South Africa, farming was especially crucial to ex-indentured labourers. There were 2 000 Indian market gardeners in and around Durban by 1885, and by 1910 Indians owned 10 000 acres of arable ...

Construction of the 1860 Indian Indentured Labourers Monument in Durban is expected to be completed by November 16. Photo: Supplied YEARS of delays and setbacks in building the 1860 Indian ...

brought to the island by Indian women during the indentured labour period. This moment showed Bhojpuri's enduring presence in the East-African island nation of Mauritius and the efforts to ...

May 14 is Girmit Day - a day that commemorates when the first indentured labourers arrived in Fiji from India in 1879 under British colonial rule. The term Girmit, or Girmityas, was used to refer ...