Indian Opinion publishes its first issue

Railway officials removed Mohandas Gandhi from a first-class compartment at Pietermaritzburg after a white passenger objected to his presence. The incident became part of his developing opposition...

The Cape Parliament enacted the Glen Grey Act, limiting African landholding and using taxation to push African men into wage labour. The law foreshadowed later national segregation.

Gandhi and Indian merchants formed the Natal Indian Congress to oppose racial discrimination and organize political representation for the Indian community.

War began between the British Empire and the Boer republics. African communities were drawn into the conflict as combatants, labourers and victims, while British concentration camps imprisoned Black...

Britain and the Boer republics ended the war without granting political rights to the Black majority. The settlement laid foundations for white reconciliation and the segregated Union of South Africa.

Following a plague outbreak, authorities forcibly evacuated the racially mixed settlement and burned it. The removals strengthened municipal segregation and displaced African and Indian residents.

Bhambatha kaMancinza led armed resistance to the Natal poll tax and colonial rule. His fighters attacked a police column near Mpanza, intensifying the rebellion.

Natal colonial troops surrounded and attacked the rebels at Mome Gorge, killing hundreds. Officials claimed Bhambatha died there, although supporters disputed this account.

About 3,000 Indian and Chinese residents met at the Empire Theatre and pledged to defy compulsory registration. The meeting marked the beginning of organized satyagraha in South Africa.

A Johannesburg court sentenced Gandhi and fellow satyagrahis for refusing to register under the Asiatic Registration Act. Imprisonment became a deliberate method of nonviolent resistance.