POLITICAL REALITIES
HAS the once powerful Indian voice in politics lost its place at the table? Now that the embers of the 2024 general election have cooled, it is handy to mine the glorious past for guidance on moving South Africa forward.
The 1947 Natal Indian Congress (NIC) Agenda Book read as follows: “The Indian people of Natal had decided to give the new policy advocated by the progressives a trial because they were convinced of the impotence of the old leadership, which called itself ‘moderate’ but in reality was characterised by a policy of weak-kneed appeasement. When the present Congress leaders (radicals) assumed office, the first question they tackled was that of the
