The Week India – June 30, 2019

MANY

FACES OF

GANDHI

BY DENI LAL

Gandhi set up the Natal Indian Ambulance

Corps for the British to use as

stretcher bearers during the Second Boer

War in South Africa. It consisted of 300

free indians and 800 indentured labourers.

The local indians met the expenses. Gandhi

served in the Battle of Spion Kop ( 23-24

January 1900) as part of the corps.

The British honoured him with the title

Kaiser-i-Hind for his work in the war.

Gandhi helped establish three

football clubs in Durban,

Pretoria and Johannesburg,

according to FIFA. all three

were given the same name:

Passive resisters soccer club.

Gandhi told his

associates in Tolstoy

Farm to serve Beef to

the christians and

musalmans there if they

asked for it.

THE

SOLDIER

THE

SPORTS

ORGANISER

THE

CARER

84 THE WEEK • JUNE 30, 2019

He started the tolstoy

farm in Johannesburg

as a home for

imprisoned satyagrahis

and their families.