“This monument will honour the resilience, sacrifices, and legacy of the 1860 indentured workers, ensuring their stories are ...

IT TOOK some journeying, disagreements and politicking before consensus was reached on the design of a monument that would ideally commemorate an historic South African moment, when the first Indian ...

A new monument honouring Indian indentured labourers is set to be completed by November 2025, featuring 684 names and a ...

Construction of the momument honouring the over 100 000 indentured labourers that travelled from India to South Africa in 1860, is finally getting underway in South Beach near uShaka Marine World.

Indentured servants first arrived in America ... and many skilled and unskilled laborers were without work. A new life in the New World offered a glimmer of hope; this explains how one-half ...

In the early years of the colony, many Africans and poor whites -- most of the laborers came from the ... contract were equally punished. All were indentured servants. During their time as ...

This deception was aimed to replenish their lost labour force after slavery had been outlawed within the British Empire. The phenomenon became known as ‘decoy slavery’, or indentured labour ...

Following the abolition of slavery across the British Empire, Indian indentured labourers provided a cheap source of labour to the government. Many Indians travelled from India to the Caribbean ...

May 14 is Girmit Day - a day that commemorates when the first indentured labourers arrived in Fiji from India in 1879 under British colonial rule. The term Girmit, or Girmityas, was used to refer ...