What is Thunee?

Thunee Game  What is it? and Thunee rules.   Thunee is a popular card game that originated in Durban, South Africa. It was invented by Indian indentured-labourers who arrived in South Africa to work in the sugarcane fields. It is believed that there are...

SS Truro arrived off Durban

WHEN the SS Truro arrived off Durban on November 16, 1860, bringing the first group of indentured labourers, the first newspaper to record the event appears to have been the Natal Star, a weekly, which ran a brief report on November 17, noting that “the Truro anchored...

The best of Indian and African worlds

WHEN Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi arrived in India via London on January 9, 1915, no one knew that he would become India’s greatest pravasi. He had spent 21 years in South Africa, working as a lawyer committed to end discrimination, especially of Indian people by the...