Volume 32, Number 16 · October 24, 1985

Satyagraha in Durban

By J.M. Coetzee
A Revolutionary Woman
by Sheila Fugard

Braziller, 144 pp., $14.95

On August 10 this year, during clashes between Africans and Indians around Durban, South Africa, a mob invaded Phoenix Estate, the communal settlement founded by Gandhi, burning and looting. Among the houses wrecked was the Gandhi family house, which had been maintained as a museum.



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