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Navi Pillay’s Indian connection: How a brutal colonial labour system changed generations of lives

Nobel Peace Prize winner Navi Pillay’s grandparents travelled from India to South Africa as indentured labourers. Their story traces the exploitative system that sent more than 150,000 Indians to Natal’s sugar plantations between 1860 and 1911.

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