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Walk less than a mile from my mother’s home in South Africa’s lush Eastern province of Kwa-Zulu Natal and the smell of curry will never be far away. There are more than a million Indians in South Africa. Many South African Indians are descendants of labourers. Most came in the mid-19th century to work the sugar farms…and of course the coal mines!