The
Satyagrahi in South Africa
By Nechama Brodle
Hundred years is a long time, particularly in a town only a little
older than a century itself.
The road to Tolstoy Farm, Mahatma Gandhi's penultimate residence
in South Africa, is no longer marked, if indeed it ever was. To get there I
have to head south along Lenasia Drive and then follow a set of rather cryptic
directions provided by an urban geographer and a sociologist.
The farm was founded in 1910, the same year Count Leo Tolstoy
would die. Gandhi was a great fan of the Russian writer and the two had
exchanged several rather beautiful letters, rich with ideas and encouragement.
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