SOUTH AFRICAN CITY TO SET UP GANDHI MEMORIAL
Dr. Jai Maharaj
The Indian Express, via News Plus
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Friday, December 24, 1999
Durban - The South African city of Pietermaritzburg,
which has taken the lead in honouring the role of Mahatma
Gandhi in the country's freedom struggle, is adding
another monument to honour the apostle of peace.
The Mahatma Gandhi cultural Centre and library will be
set up at a cost of four million rand (approx. Rs 25
lakh) over the next two years by the Gandhi memorial
committee and the Gujurati Vedic Society.
The committee was responsible for erecting a statue of
Gandhiji in the heart of the city and of declaring as a
national museum the local railway station where the
Mahatma was thrown out of a Johannesburg-bound train
while travelling in a whites-only compartment. "This is
the most ambitious project the society has ever embarked
on," committee secretary Dasarath Bundhoo said, adding a
rare painting by cape town artist Ronald Harrison has
been acquired for the centre.
Titled "the gift", the painting "depicts Gandhiji as a
gift from god to us, and his wife Kasturba as his gift to
Gandhiji and shows Gandhiji and Kasturba safe in the
hands of god," he said. Harrison became famous a few
years ago for his black Christ painting.
Meanwhile, the phoenix settlement in Durban, which was
destroyed by rioters in 1985, would be renovated and
rebuilt by the local Mahatma Gandhi trust. Gandhiji built
it to promote his 'Satyaghra' or possive resistance
policy, reports PTI.
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