In South Africa, as nowhere else, sports boycott made a great contribution to liberation. The Indian community can be proud that Indian sportspersons and administrators were in the vanguard of this front of the anti-apartheid struggle.
Market gardening has been a traditional way of life of the Indian community for many years. In the Report of the Coolie Commission (1872) for example, mention is made of small locations of Indians in the neighbourhood of Durban who carried on a thriving trade 1n the sale of vegetables.
When my wife and I were in England in 1978 for the Lambeth Conference of Anglican Bishops, we went on a short pilgrimage to certain holy places. One of the places we visited was the island of Lindesfarne off the English north coast. It made an indelible impression upon us........
