Monday, August 3, 2015
SUBRY GOVENDER PICTURES - 2010 150TH COMMEMMORATIONS
SUBRY GOVENDER BUSY AT WORK DURING THE GURLY BURLY DAYS OF THE STRUGGLES AGAINST WHITE MINORITY RULE IN THE 1970S, 1980S AND EARLY 1990s.
(SWAMINATHAN GOUNDEN AND COLLEAGUES AT A 2010 COMMEMMORATION FUNCTION)
(PICTURES OF THE PEOPLE WHO WORKED AT MOUNT EDGECOMBE SUGAR MILL, THE FOOTBALL CLUB AND THE KALAIVANIE ORCHESTRA. NATAL ESTATES WORKERS)
(SWAMINATHAN GOUNDEN AND COLLEAGUE AT THE DAVID LANDAU COMMUNITY CENTRE THAT WAS BUILT BY DESCENDANTS OF INDENTURED LABOURERS)
(ROY PADAYCHIE AND OTHERS AT 2010 FUNCTION ORGANISED BY THE INDIAN GOVERNMENT IN DURBAN)
(AHMED KATHRADA, ELA GANDHI, ENUGA REDDY, FORMER ASSISTANT SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE UN, VASU GOUNDEN, AND AT A FUNCTION IN DURBAN IN 2010)
(TEMPLE BUILT BY DESCENDANTS OF INDENTURED LABOURERS IN DARNAL, NEAR STANGER, ON THE NORTH COAST)
(Former Indian Consul General, , other consul officials and Ela Gandhi at a 150th anniversary function)
(OFFICIALS AND WORKERS AT THE SHRI MARIAMMEN TEMPLE IN MOUNT EDGECOMBE WHERE OUR ANCESTORS SETTLED AFTER WORKING AS INDENTURED LABOURERS)
(ANTI-APARTHEID ACIVISTS CONVERGING AT THE DURBAN CITY HALL IN 2010 TO PAY TRIBUTE TO DR MONTY NAICKER AND OTHER DESCENDANTS OF INDENTURED LABOURERERS WHO PLAYED A MAJOR ROLE IN THE STRUGGLES AGAINST WHITE MINORITY RULE)
(FORMER MAGAZINE BARRACKS RESIDENTS MEETING IN DURBAN IN 2010 TO COMMEMMORATE THE ARRIVAL OF THEIR ANCESTORS FROM INDIA IN 1860 AND THEREAFTER)
(RESIDENTS OF CHOPPERS' OR BLACKBURN VILLAGE WHERE DESCENDANTS OF INDENTURED LABOURERS STILL LIVE IN TIN HOUSES)
(HARTLEY ESTATE AREA IN OVERPORT THAT WAS INHABITED BY INDENTURED LABOURERS)
(HILLHEAD, BLACKBURN AND BLACKBURN VILLAGE PICTURES DURING THE 2010 COMMEMMORATIONS)
(The launch of committee to commemmorate the arrival of slave labourers from India in 1860. Our forefathers were called indentured labourers whio were recruited to work on the sugar plantations of the then Natal Colony ruled by the British)
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