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May 1939: Indian women indentured workers leave the sugar cane fields after a day’s work on a plantation at Mount Edgecombe, Natal. Photo: Reg Speller/Fox Photos/Getty Images

South African Indian literature explores identity

Books and academic articles tell us our own stories and help others to understand them

Aarti Bhana

Motala and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu listen to Nelson Mandela.

The doctor and his ‘subversive surgery’

‘Chota Motala: A Biography of Political Activism in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands’ recounts the doctor’s role in shaping politics

Goolam Vahed