In the main, Inanda, just north of Durban, was a fairly peaceful enclave inhabited primarily by Indian and black citizens, but relegated a distance away from the Durban CBD by the then Apartheid regime, in terms of the dastardly Group Areas Act.
Two communities, “far from the madding crowd”, lived in relative harmony, as neighbours and as friends, until a few fateful days that shattered the tranquillity and harmony, which devastated an entire community, leaving lives and livelihoods in ruins.
My father, Mr Deochand Ganesh, was the president of the then Inanda Child and Family Welfare Society that assisted many families, Indian and black alike, with solving domestic problems and aiding in providing food relief to the very indigent and other assistance where needed.
Considered “rural” at the time, Inanda…
