Gandhi spent 21 years in South Africa, from 1893 until 1914, although he made visits to India and the UK during that time.

[1] It is said that Gandhi first learnt about racial discrimination when he was arrested at Pietermaritzburg railway station for travelling in a whites only wagon.

In 1907, Kallenbach designed a house that was based on the shape of two local huts (rondavels)[3] but made with European building methods.

[4] They left in 1909, and the house had several owners[5] before being bought in 2009 by the French travel company Voyageurs du Monde to the chagrin of the Government of India who wanted to acquire it as an Indian national monument.

[7] Satyagraha means "truth force", a reference to the concept of non-violent resistance developed by Gandhi when he lived in South Africa.