It is a great honour and privilege that his life should be so intimately linked to the history of the freedom struggle in South Africa.Īnd when he died on 30 January 1948 it is not only India that mourned the loss of a great leader, South Africa also lost a leader. Gandhi’s resilient but peaceful opposition to all forms of discrimination is known and celebrated the world over. After unsuccessfully attempting to practise in India, he moved to South. He shaped the destinies of generations to come, both in South Africa and in India. Born in 1869 in Gujarat, India, Gandhi studied law at the Inner Temple in London. Mahatma Gandhi lived for twenty-one years in South Africa. He refined his Satyagraha in South Africa after he arrived in KwaZulu-Natal as a mere 24 year-old. Mumbai, Mahatma Gandhi's grandson Arun Gandhi passed away at Kolhapur in Maharashtra on Tuesday after brief illness, family sources said.
‘But though Gandhi lived, suffered and died in India for Indians, it is not in relation to India’s destiny alone that his life has significance’, says one scribe about the Mahatma.Īny narration of the life of the Mahatma drips the blood ties that knot the ‘great soul in beggar’s garb’ to the history and ultimate liberation of the South African peoples. Born to Manilal Gandhi and Sushila Mashruwala in Durban on April 14, 1934, Arun Gandhi followed in the footsteps of his grandfather as an activist. Mahatma Karamchand Gandhi was born on 2 October 1869, at Porbandar, a small town on the western coast of India, which was then one of the many tiny states in Kathiawar.
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