"two days ago, November 16, 2009 - was the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the first ship from India to South Africa..
on Nov. 16, 1860... the first ship to arrive in South Africa (with Indians) was the SS Truro. There were 348 laborers onboard. The name of the first immigrant, recorded on the list of the ship Truro, was Davarum.
so, this week is something for South African Indians...
the ship started from the then Madras (now, Chennai) to the Natal bay...
Between 1860 and 2000 some 980,000 Indians arrived in South Africa as indentured laborers. The majority of them were Hindus from Madras, Travancore, Orissa and Bengal. Today, there are almost a million Indians living in South Africa - the largest group outside of India and Pakistan..."
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