Tribute to Nad Murugan – Militant Trade Unionist – by Marlan Padayachee
SOUTH Africa has lost one of its most fiery and militant trade unionists with outstanding negotiating, mediating and legal skills this week. Nad Murugan, aged 53, died under tragic circumstances in Durban.
For almost a decade he had battled a severe bout of depression and alcoholism, triggered by the brutal murder of his wife by a domestic worker in 1992 and possibly the post-traumatic stress of the apartheid era.
Despite this painful personal tragedy, Murugan stayed the course. After championing the grievances of poorly paid municipal workers in Durban, he relocated to Johannesburg where he excelled as a part-time senior commissioner at the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration.
But amid his successful professional role-playing, he appeared to be dogged and shadowed by the gruesome death of his teacher-wife Rebecca. She was busy planning a homecoming celebration for her husband, who had completed a year-long course in labour law at Harvard University, when she was bludgeoned to death by her maid at her flat.
Murugan’s year-long scholarship at the famous Ivy League landmark in Boston in the United States of America had prepared him adequately to play a powerful role in the labour movement in a democratic South Africa.
As a white collar professional at the City of Durban in apartheid- era 1980s, Murugan cut his teeth in trade unionism with the Durban Indian Municipal Employees Society, where he rubbed shoulders with the blue collar workers.
As the leader of a small union of street-sweepers and labouring gangs, established at the city’s communal Magazine Barracks by Indian indentured sugar cane labourers, he won many labour issues and staged protest marches and brought the municipality to a standstill in his confrontation with the old city council. He also pitted his talents against the might of the city’s leading corporate labour law firms.
Racial and ethnic politics was anathema to Murugan.
During this watershed period of racial turbulence, Murugan was sucked into the maelstrom of anti-apartheid politics and he nurtured and re-engineered his labour movement into an all-race union, bringing African and coloured workers into a single bargaining unit.
The birth of the powerful South African Municipal Workers Union was to change the face of how municipalities dealt with its workforce and rekindled one man’s passion to ensure that workers enjoyed the fruits of the new nation’s march to workplace equity and economic prosperity, hence the birth of the CCMA.
At the CCMA, he applied his legal mind effectively while using his mediation and arbitration skills to change rigid mindsets of employers while ensuring that aggrieved employees were treated with fairness. He also contributed his intellectual property to many caseworks and publications.
Murugan featured in many landmark hearings, notably settling the issue of allowances and salary increases between Eskom and Numsa and Solidarity trade unions, and disputes involving the South African Revenue Services and the Media Workers Association of South Africa.
Back home recently, family members in Stanger and Durban rallied around Murugan in the aftermath of another personal setback, a divorce from his second wife, Kantha Naidoo and her emigration to Australia.
Then out of the blue came a surprise call from Murugan, brimming with confidence about a new labour of love to pull together a book about the face of trade unionism, labour disputes and the new culture of conciliation, mediation and arbitration and how he viewed labour politics in a transforming South Africa.
A dream deferred, a book in the making, the labour movement is poorer without Nad Murugan.
However, amidst the humdrum of his chequered life and times, Murugan was a great single-parent to his two sons, Denver and Renard, who overcame their own personal battles, challenges and prejudices of their physical impairment and disabilities. Hamba Kahle, Nad Murugan.
Marlan Padayachee is an international freelance journalist who covered the historic political, labour and social frontline battles during the apartheid era.
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Monday, September 29, 2008
A Bharata-Natyam Star Is Born - Aneka Naidoo
A New Bharata Natyam Star Is Born – Aneka Divyarupa Naidoo
Bharata Natyam's latest graduate, 14-year-old Aneka Divyarupa, made a "scintillating" dance debut before an appreciative audience at the Coast of Dreams in Durban on Sunday.
The Grade 9 Crawford College schoolgirl, looking radiant and ravishing and wearing five outfits in splash of colour, elegance and exuberance, fascinated the 300 guests during her two hour-long performance at the weekend.
Her baptism of fire in the ancient art of south Indian classical dancing culminated in five years of training and tutelage by renowned dance teacher and singer Kumari Ambigay.
To the lilting songs and tunes of Kumari Ambigay and her musicians, ranging from Pillayaar, an invocation dance, to Makan Chor, a Hindi bhajan set to the leelas of little Lord Krsna, Aneka Divyarupa excelled beyond expectations with her rhythm, striking poses, timing and her myriad of brilliant facial expressions.
Her colourful graduation ceremony and ritual, known as Arangetram, was roundly endorsed by applauses, thereby paving the way for to undertake another six-month rigorous course towards become a Bharata Natyam dance tutor.
Ever since she was a little girl, Aneka Divyarupa was inspired by Bollywood screen icon Rani Mukerjee's spectacular sequence of the Bharata Natyam dance on the big screen. She has not looked back and five years later, she has earned the title, "Natyamanni" and will be referred to as Natyamanni Aneka Divyarupa. Her middle translates into the "Many divine forms of Lord Vishnu".
Interestingly, when she is not dancing with bells on her feet and waxing lyrical on stage, she assists her parents, Dr Lochan Naidoo and Julie Naidoo at the family-owned medical and drug rehabilitation centres in Merebank in Durban South and the Gateway complex in Umhlanga.
Speaking at the graduation, Dr Ronnie Pillay, leading pediatrician and executive deputy member of the South African Tamil Federation, said he was impressed by how Aneka Divyarupa combined her studies, extra-curricular dance activities in one of the world's most complex and intricate dance forms while showing compassion in her part-time work among youth and adults battling drug and alcohol addiction and abuse at the family-owned facilities.
"At her age, Aneka Divyarupa is leaving footprints for other young people to follow the pathway of an ancient dance that was almost discarded by the British Raj during the reign of colonialism in India. Fortunately, this dance form was resurrected by visionaries and its beauty and glory continues to inspire us in a rainbow nation where multiculturalism and cultural diversity has become the norm in the new South Africa," Dr Pillay said.
eThekwini Municipality Deputy Mayor Logie Naidoo said he had attended dance graduations for almost a decade in political office, but was taken aback by the graduate's "stunning performance".
"I have often marveled at the passion, and exuberance displayed on stage by dancers such as Aneka Divyarupa. This unique dance form, though taxing and punishing in the run-up to the graduation, teaches young people life skills and core values such as discipline, focus, dedication, courage, perseverance, resilience, right living, personality development and respect and tolerance for others," said Naidoo.
"As you take your quantum leap into professional dance tutelage, put your best foot forward and dance and dance as if no one is looking at you."
In the Indian arts and culture world, Bharata Natyam is a classical dance originating in Tamil Nadu, a state in South India. This popular dance is said to be a 20th century reconstruction of Cathir, the art of temple dancers and derived from ancient dance forms. Bharata Natyam is accompanied by classical carnatic music, as displayed by a tight-knit musical troupe of singers and musicians who provided the Kumari Ambigay Dance Institute's 97th graduate with lilting music, bhagans and recitals.
Presenting a certificate of competence, Kumari Ambigay described her protégé as an "extraordinary candidate who had performed from heart beyond all expectations".
Proud parents Lochan and Julie Naidoo had last words: "Our third child has lived up to her name and today holds our attention and makes us reflect on our divinity and unconditional love for the Supreme Lord. She was motivated by actress Rani Mukerjee. She epitomizes youthful culture and energy in a changing social landscape where our young people are faced with western culture and the advent of technology gadgets."
Apart from dancing, Natyamanni Aneka Divyarupa loves animals, horse-riding, golf, cycling and assists at the family's addiction treatment centres.
Ends
Bharata Natyam's latest graduate, 14-year-old Aneka Divyarupa, made a "scintillating" dance debut before an appreciative audience at the Coast of Dreams in Durban on Sunday.
The Grade 9 Crawford College schoolgirl, looking radiant and ravishing and wearing five outfits in splash of colour, elegance and exuberance, fascinated the 300 guests during her two hour-long performance at the weekend.
Her baptism of fire in the ancient art of south Indian classical dancing culminated in five years of training and tutelage by renowned dance teacher and singer Kumari Ambigay.
To the lilting songs and tunes of Kumari Ambigay and her musicians, ranging from Pillayaar, an invocation dance, to Makan Chor, a Hindi bhajan set to the leelas of little Lord Krsna, Aneka Divyarupa excelled beyond expectations with her rhythm, striking poses, timing and her myriad of brilliant facial expressions.
Her colourful graduation ceremony and ritual, known as Arangetram, was roundly endorsed by applauses, thereby paving the way for to undertake another six-month rigorous course towards become a Bharata Natyam dance tutor.
Ever since she was a little girl, Aneka Divyarupa was inspired by Bollywood screen icon Rani Mukerjee's spectacular sequence of the Bharata Natyam dance on the big screen. She has not looked back and five years later, she has earned the title, "Natyamanni" and will be referred to as Natyamanni Aneka Divyarupa. Her middle translates into the "Many divine forms of Lord Vishnu".
Interestingly, when she is not dancing with bells on her feet and waxing lyrical on stage, she assists her parents, Dr Lochan Naidoo and Julie Naidoo at the family-owned medical and drug rehabilitation centres in Merebank in Durban South and the Gateway complex in Umhlanga.
Speaking at the graduation, Dr Ronnie Pillay, leading pediatrician and executive deputy member of the South African Tamil Federation, said he was impressed by how Aneka Divyarupa combined her studies, extra-curricular dance activities in one of the world's most complex and intricate dance forms while showing compassion in her part-time work among youth and adults battling drug and alcohol addiction and abuse at the family-owned facilities.
"At her age, Aneka Divyarupa is leaving footprints for other young people to follow the pathway of an ancient dance that was almost discarded by the British Raj during the reign of colonialism in India. Fortunately, this dance form was resurrected by visionaries and its beauty and glory continues to inspire us in a rainbow nation where multiculturalism and cultural diversity has become the norm in the new South Africa," Dr Pillay said.
eThekwini Municipality Deputy Mayor Logie Naidoo said he had attended dance graduations for almost a decade in political office, but was taken aback by the graduate's "stunning performance".
"I have often marveled at the passion, and exuberance displayed on stage by dancers such as Aneka Divyarupa. This unique dance form, though taxing and punishing in the run-up to the graduation, teaches young people life skills and core values such as discipline, focus, dedication, courage, perseverance, resilience, right living, personality development and respect and tolerance for others," said Naidoo.
"As you take your quantum leap into professional dance tutelage, put your best foot forward and dance and dance as if no one is looking at you."
In the Indian arts and culture world, Bharata Natyam is a classical dance originating in Tamil Nadu, a state in South India. This popular dance is said to be a 20th century reconstruction of Cathir, the art of temple dancers and derived from ancient dance forms. Bharata Natyam is accompanied by classical carnatic music, as displayed by a tight-knit musical troupe of singers and musicians who provided the Kumari Ambigay Dance Institute's 97th graduate with lilting music, bhagans and recitals.
Presenting a certificate of competence, Kumari Ambigay described her protégé as an "extraordinary candidate who had performed from heart beyond all expectations".
Proud parents Lochan and Julie Naidoo had last words: "Our third child has lived up to her name and today holds our attention and makes us reflect on our divinity and unconditional love for the Supreme Lord. She was motivated by actress Rani Mukerjee. She epitomizes youthful culture and energy in a changing social landscape where our young people are faced with western culture and the advent of technology gadgets."
Apart from dancing, Natyamanni Aneka Divyarupa loves animals, horse-riding, golf, cycling and assists at the family's addiction treatment centres.
Ends
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Indians At Sea Or At Home In Cultural Splash in South Africa?
Marlan Padayachee
Left of What’s Right
RECENTLY I attended three Indian functions in a row over three days in Durban.
The sights and sounds, saris and sweetmeats and the cuisines, chilli bites and the cultural cacophony of this Diaspora community convinced me once more that Durban is truly an “Indian country”, where many of the descendants of the 1860 indentured labourers are still struggling with the franca-lingua of the dominant Zulu-speaking compatriots and some of the dramatic transformational social, economic and political changes in South Africa.
Though Indians are a homogeneous bloc, they are not alone in a Catch-22 situation in a changing environment where the proverbial playing fields are becoming leveled as we head for the third democratic elections in 2009. The other sister groups, so-called Whites, Coloureds, Chinese, Portuguese, Greeks, Lebanese, or foreigners like Africans, Asians, Sri Lankans, are also feeling as if they are out of the loop, insecure, alienated or regarded as soft targets by the criminal elements. Then there’s also an old adage – a classic case of “too many Chiefs not enough Indians”.
Almost 148 years since that historic landing at the Durban Bay on 16 November when more than 300 men, women and children disembarked from the SS Truro after a horrendous journey across the Indian Ocean Rim, in which some scurvy-ravaged indentured labourers perished in the deep blue ocean, South Africa’s 1, 3 million Indians appear to be still at sea about life in the new South Africa.
Cultural Passion
But one thing Indians, individually and collectively, are certain about is their whole Indian socio-cultural package and baggage. They are passionate about their ancient religious rituals, Hinduism, Christianity or Islam. They appear preoccupied with all and sundry from red-hot spicy meals, the city’s indigenous favourite eat out - bunny-chow - saris and sweetmeats, mansions versus matchbox houses, Amabenzi as the first choice of prestige carriage as compared to the trustworthy Toyota, status symbols, social climbing, Lotusfm, Eastern Mosaic, SA India magazine, and of course, Bollywood, India’s template of Hollywood.
But all said and done, South Africa is arguably one of the best places on the Planet, depending on which side of the fence you are sitting on, or how green your grass is getting. Though sizzling- hot Dubai is touted as our tenth province for economic migration, the weather speaks for itself in this ancient civilization.
Three days in Little India began as a guest of the Indian Consulate at Lillieshell Manor, a one size fits all dinner party for the visiting Indian MBA students, who certainly enjoyed their sabbatical at the Graduate School of Business at the UNKZ’s Westville Campus under the tutelage of Professor Anesh Singh and a colleague Martin Challenor, whom the young financial gurus nicknamed Martinji after he had put them through their paces for week; and the double-header dinner included the Miss India South Africa Pageants aspirants, in which another stalwart colleague Farook Khan, was roundly honoured for promoting young Indian women by His Excellency, Harsh Vardhan Shringla, who diplomatically reminded us that we were on Indian soil. The Consul-General also politely informed our ubiquitous Deputy Mayor Logie Naidoo that nothing socially can happen in the city of his forebears without his charming presence.
The next day the cultural choreography of the annual pageantry rolled out with women being the roses among the thorns, looking radiant and ravishing in colourful saris and eastern garments. On the third day it was off to the yearly bridal fair, exhibiting all that’s Indian, from exotic eastern dishes to intricate gold jewellery, accessories and apparels to photo-opportunities for the big day. On stage, the models strutted the best and the fashionistas thrived to the beat of Bollywood.
This prestige bridal show that enjoys a corporate banking sponsorship is a positive imaging of everything that’s chic, glamorous and modern about the community, exuding a blend of the ancient and post-modernism in which the older and younger generation fuses around the sacred moments of planning marriages in a kaleidoscope of colour and tradition.
Nearby the Bollywood Bible, a high quality SA India magazine was dished out to patrons to gloss over the celluloid icons and catch up with off-screen gossips. Aside from Women’s Month, August was also Indian Month with the Shared Experiences, Goa Food Fair and Bollywood, The Musical.
Romanticism with Bollywood and the Ancient Land of India
Significantly in 2010, South Africa’s Golden Year since the Long Walk to Freedom, South Africans of Indian origin, will be celebrating 150 years of living and working in the reinvented republic. Unlike many Indian expatriates around the world, estimated at 20-million, Indians in this strategic corner of the eastern Africa seaboard of the Indian Ocean Rim are unique. As a cultural bloc, they are still part and parcel of the new RSA, having put up with the indignity and discrimination of the apartheid country.
Therefore, throughout the toughest sanctions on trade and cultural links, Indians at home did not sever their umbilical cord with the land of their forebears and while resisting social and economic injustices at home, hence the intense level of passion and love for Incredible India. In the same vein, Indians have stood four squares behind Mandela’s campaign to free all South Africans and provide a new, non-racial democracy for “all those who live in it”.
Both histories are intertwined and tied to each other’s destinies, and they are almost inseparably linked to the strong platform between Tshwane-Pretoria-Durban and New Delhi-Mumbai-Chennai.
Culturally, Indians are an integral mix of SA’s unique cultural diversity and cosmopolitan image within the banner of One Country, Many Cultures.
For several years, the multi-media has brought the heart and soul of Bollywood into the lives, living rooms and lifestyles of Indians and the animation of the glamour and glitz of one of the world’s colourful film industries is comes alive on the big screens, DVDs and hand-held communications gadgets. Various mediums serve to enrich the knowledge economy of the community and the synergy is boundless. Even pay-TV station DStv is in on the act, bringing out the best of Bollywood to local audiences.
Ahead of the first FIFA World Cup, Indian South Africans are a resourceful and colourful crowd who can act as the catalyst within the Indian Diaspora and this community has a lot to share with the rest of nation’s diverse communities.
There’s romanticism between Bollywood and the ancient land of India – it’s a question of bridging the chasm and celebrating the successes. This human potential has to be unlocked beyond perceived pride and prejudice as we strive to show our young people the beauty of being Indian within a dynamic cultural diversity.
May industrious Indians here and abroad tell the world a story of the ancient land of religious rituals, cultural civilization, pageantry, beauty, tradition, custom , cuisines and the cacophony of people while promoting a one-nation, many cultures mantra.
Until next week and as a tribute to the Muslim community in holy month of Ramadan Mubarak, I am sharing Prophet Kahlil Gibran’s words of wisdom: “Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you, and yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward, not tarries with yesterday.”
Marlan Padayachee is an international freelance journalist and a media communications strategist and recipient of the British Council Fellow and the US International Visitor awards, and he is publishing a gilt-edged coffee-table yearbook, 150 Years of Indians in 2010 South Africa.
Left of What’s Right
RECENTLY I attended three Indian functions in a row over three days in Durban.
The sights and sounds, saris and sweetmeats and the cuisines, chilli bites and the cultural cacophony of this Diaspora community convinced me once more that Durban is truly an “Indian country”, where many of the descendants of the 1860 indentured labourers are still struggling with the franca-lingua of the dominant Zulu-speaking compatriots and some of the dramatic transformational social, economic and political changes in South Africa.
Though Indians are a homogeneous bloc, they are not alone in a Catch-22 situation in a changing environment where the proverbial playing fields are becoming leveled as we head for the third democratic elections in 2009. The other sister groups, so-called Whites, Coloureds, Chinese, Portuguese, Greeks, Lebanese, or foreigners like Africans, Asians, Sri Lankans, are also feeling as if they are out of the loop, insecure, alienated or regarded as soft targets by the criminal elements. Then there’s also an old adage – a classic case of “too many Chiefs not enough Indians”.
Almost 148 years since that historic landing at the Durban Bay on 16 November when more than 300 men, women and children disembarked from the SS Truro after a horrendous journey across the Indian Ocean Rim, in which some scurvy-ravaged indentured labourers perished in the deep blue ocean, South Africa’s 1, 3 million Indians appear to be still at sea about life in the new South Africa.
Cultural Passion
But one thing Indians, individually and collectively, are certain about is their whole Indian socio-cultural package and baggage. They are passionate about their ancient religious rituals, Hinduism, Christianity or Islam. They appear preoccupied with all and sundry from red-hot spicy meals, the city’s indigenous favourite eat out - bunny-chow - saris and sweetmeats, mansions versus matchbox houses, Amabenzi as the first choice of prestige carriage as compared to the trustworthy Toyota, status symbols, social climbing, Lotusfm, Eastern Mosaic, SA India magazine, and of course, Bollywood, India’s template of Hollywood.
But all said and done, South Africa is arguably one of the best places on the Planet, depending on which side of the fence you are sitting on, or how green your grass is getting. Though sizzling- hot Dubai is touted as our tenth province for economic migration, the weather speaks for itself in this ancient civilization.
Three days in Little India began as a guest of the Indian Consulate at Lillieshell Manor, a one size fits all dinner party for the visiting Indian MBA students, who certainly enjoyed their sabbatical at the Graduate School of Business at the UNKZ’s Westville Campus under the tutelage of Professor Anesh Singh and a colleague Martin Challenor, whom the young financial gurus nicknamed Martinji after he had put them through their paces for week; and the double-header dinner included the Miss India South Africa Pageants aspirants, in which another stalwart colleague Farook Khan, was roundly honoured for promoting young Indian women by His Excellency, Harsh Vardhan Shringla, who diplomatically reminded us that we were on Indian soil. The Consul-General also politely informed our ubiquitous Deputy Mayor Logie Naidoo that nothing socially can happen in the city of his forebears without his charming presence.
The next day the cultural choreography of the annual pageantry rolled out with women being the roses among the thorns, looking radiant and ravishing in colourful saris and eastern garments. On the third day it was off to the yearly bridal fair, exhibiting all that’s Indian, from exotic eastern dishes to intricate gold jewellery, accessories and apparels to photo-opportunities for the big day. On stage, the models strutted the best and the fashionistas thrived to the beat of Bollywood.
This prestige bridal show that enjoys a corporate banking sponsorship is a positive imaging of everything that’s chic, glamorous and modern about the community, exuding a blend of the ancient and post-modernism in which the older and younger generation fuses around the sacred moments of planning marriages in a kaleidoscope of colour and tradition.
Nearby the Bollywood Bible, a high quality SA India magazine was dished out to patrons to gloss over the celluloid icons and catch up with off-screen gossips. Aside from Women’s Month, August was also Indian Month with the Shared Experiences, Goa Food Fair and Bollywood, The Musical.
Romanticism with Bollywood and the Ancient Land of India
Significantly in 2010, South Africa’s Golden Year since the Long Walk to Freedom, South Africans of Indian origin, will be celebrating 150 years of living and working in the reinvented republic. Unlike many Indian expatriates around the world, estimated at 20-million, Indians in this strategic corner of the eastern Africa seaboard of the Indian Ocean Rim are unique. As a cultural bloc, they are still part and parcel of the new RSA, having put up with the indignity and discrimination of the apartheid country.
Therefore, throughout the toughest sanctions on trade and cultural links, Indians at home did not sever their umbilical cord with the land of their forebears and while resisting social and economic injustices at home, hence the intense level of passion and love for Incredible India. In the same vein, Indians have stood four squares behind Mandela’s campaign to free all South Africans and provide a new, non-racial democracy for “all those who live in it”.
Both histories are intertwined and tied to each other’s destinies, and they are almost inseparably linked to the strong platform between Tshwane-Pretoria-Durban and New Delhi-Mumbai-Chennai.
Culturally, Indians are an integral mix of SA’s unique cultural diversity and cosmopolitan image within the banner of One Country, Many Cultures.
For several years, the multi-media has brought the heart and soul of Bollywood into the lives, living rooms and lifestyles of Indians and the animation of the glamour and glitz of one of the world’s colourful film industries is comes alive on the big screens, DVDs and hand-held communications gadgets. Various mediums serve to enrich the knowledge economy of the community and the synergy is boundless. Even pay-TV station DStv is in on the act, bringing out the best of Bollywood to local audiences.
Ahead of the first FIFA World Cup, Indian South Africans are a resourceful and colourful crowd who can act as the catalyst within the Indian Diaspora and this community has a lot to share with the rest of nation’s diverse communities.
There’s romanticism between Bollywood and the ancient land of India – it’s a question of bridging the chasm and celebrating the successes. This human potential has to be unlocked beyond perceived pride and prejudice as we strive to show our young people the beauty of being Indian within a dynamic cultural diversity.
May industrious Indians here and abroad tell the world a story of the ancient land of religious rituals, cultural civilization, pageantry, beauty, tradition, custom , cuisines and the cacophony of people while promoting a one-nation, many cultures mantra.
Until next week and as a tribute to the Muslim community in holy month of Ramadan Mubarak, I am sharing Prophet Kahlil Gibran’s words of wisdom: “Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you, and yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward, not tarries with yesterday.”
Marlan Padayachee is an international freelance journalist and a media communications strategist and recipient of the British Council Fellow and the US International Visitor awards, and he is publishing a gilt-edged coffee-table yearbook, 150 Years of Indians in 2010 South Africa.
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