Just over one hundred years ago, a young lawyer arrived in South Africa from India to do some legal work. He planned to complete his work and return to his family and friends in India. But Mohandas Gandhi soon saw and experienced for himself injustices in the country. He decided to stay and fight the government’s cruel race laws. Later, he returned to India and played and important role in its struggle for independence. Today, Gandhi’s “passive resistance” method of protest is known throughout the world – and is used by many who believe in non-violence as one of the ways of fighting for their rights.

Gandhi’s fight against racial and social injustice in South Africa as told by his granddaughter, Ela Gandhi, began a momentum that inspired many political organisations opposed to this country’s racial laws.