Pupils from different Durban high schools paid homage at Resistance Park, which was originally opened by President Nelson Mandela and Professor Fatima Meer.
INDIAN Africans are at the crossroads.
"Where do we go to from here?", we questioned ourselves as we left the alumni boardroom at the iconic Sastri College, founded on Durban's Western Vlei in 1929.
A planning meeting for the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the 1946 Passive Resistance Campaign had just finished, with piping hot tea and plump samoosas being the last item on the agenda. The school's old boys chalk up the generations having mostly passed their 70th, 80th and 90th birthdays.
Over the past 35 years, the alumni association has been a key player in the construction and remembrance of "Resistance Park" at the intersection of Gale Street and Umbilo Road, honouring the thousands of resisters who went to jail, sacrificing their freedom in the face of a brutal colonial and apartheid state. The resistance failed to change the law on residential racial segregation. In fact, conditions became harsher when the Group Areas Act was forced into law in 1950.
