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Indian indentured workers arrive in South Africa on November 16, 1860.
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The eThekwini Municipality and the KwaZulu-Natal government have confirmed that about R4.4 million has been set aside for the construction of a monument in honour of indentured Indian labourers.
The labourers arrived on Durban’s South Beach in 1860 to work in the sugar cane plantation of the then Port Natal.
eThekwini Mayor Cyril Xaba says construction cannot commence as not everybody agrees with the nature of the monument.
Xaba says, “There have been diverse views on how to move forward and it looks as though when I thought the different parties were starting to move together, there are still areas of differences, so if we can iron this and get this moving as soon as possible, all the better for us.”
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