[1] As a child of nine, Agnes Sam's great-grandfather had been "shanghaied" into indentureship and brought to Durban, South Africa, in 1860 on the Lord George Bentinck II.
Cut off from India, apartheid has further separated us from other communities in South Africa, thereby exascerbating our isolation.
[4]Sam went on to study Zoology and Psychology at the National University of Lesotho, and trained as a teacher in Zimbabwe.
[5] After briefly teaching science in Zambia, she went into exile in 1973 in England, bringing up three children there while also attempting to take a further degree.
[2] Her debut novel, The Pragashini–Smuts Affair, was published in 2009,[8] and was described as "a powerful account of politics, segregation and love across the racial divide".