Following the abolition of slavery across the British Empire, Indian indentured labourers provided a cheap source of labour to the government. Many Indians travelled from India to the Caribbean ...

A new monument honouring Indian indentured labourers is set to be completed by November 2025, featuring 684 names and a ...

IT TOOK some journeying, disagreements and politicking before consensus was reached on the design of a monument that would ideally commemorate an historic South African moment, when the first Indian ...

All were indentured servants ... Well, they were a permanent dependent labor force, who could be defined as a people set apart. They were racially set apart. They were outsiders.

The idea of indentured servitude was born of a need for cheap labor. The earliest settlers soon realized that they had lots of land to care for, but no one to care for it. With passage to the ...

Prince Ishwar Ramlutchman Mabheka Zulu, who was also part of the initial monument committee, said the latest version was a true reflection of the hard- ship faced by indentured labourers.