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NOTES

76 Latest, 3 May 1913.

in Pietermaritzburg.See Pietermaritzburg Archives

Repository (PAR), MSCE 29538/1939.

77 Ibid., 8 March 1913.

60 Charlie Nulliah was the archetypal self-made colonial-born Indian.He was born to indentured Indians in Umgeni, Durban, in 1861, placing him among the first colonial-horns. He moved with his family to Pietermaritzburg in 1876, where they took up sugar farming. Nulliah became one of the biggest Indian landowners in South Africa and one of the few Indian employers of indentured labour. He also made a fortune in bulk brick manufacturing. He was, at various times, president of the NIC, first Indian member of the City Sporting Club and Durban Turf Oub, owner of winning horses such as 'Mealies', which won the Coronation Cup in 1905, and exhibitor at the Royal Agricultural Show for 28 years. He was also heavily involved in football and 63 John contributed enormously to Indian sport. Born in Stanger in 1897, he was player, secretary, treasurer, and president of DDICU, and first secretary and later president of NICU. He was also secretary of the Natal Indian Football Association (1926-1927) and was instrumental in organising the first Sam China football tournament held in Durban; he was a member of the organising committee of the tour of South Africa by the All-India team in 1934; he served as president of the South African Indian Football Association in 1943; as president, treasurer and secretary of the Durban Indian Referees Association; and was a foundation member and life trustee of the Durban Indian Sports Grounds Association. See New Times, 9 January 1948. cricket. See Who's Who (1939), 183. 61 Latest, 8 January 1916. 62 Ibid., 29 November 1918.

78 Ibid., 8 March 1913.

79 Sol Plaatje was a founder member of the South African National Native Congress (SANNC), the forerunner of the African National Congress (ANC) and author of Native Life in South Africa and Mhudi, the first novel in English by a black South African.

80 Latest, 12 April 1913.

81 Ibid., 5 April 1913.

82 Ibid., 3 May 1913.

83 S. Bhana, 'Indianness Reconfi gur ed, 1944-1960: The Natal Indian Congress in South Africa', Comparative Studies ofSouth Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 17, 2

(1997), 100-107.

84 DDICU committee meeting, 23 December 1912.

Ibid., 8 October 1914.

85

86 Ibid., 5 November 1919.

87 DDICU AGM, 1914-1915, 8 July 1914.

88 Indian Opinion, 2 September 1914.

89 African Chronicle, 16 October 1916.

90 Ibid., 2 September 1914.

91 DDICU committee meeting, 17 November 1915.

92 DDICU Annual Report, 8 December 1917.

93 Latest, 13 December 1924.

Indian Opinion, 3 March 1915.

94

95 The contingent, known as 'Christopher's C ontingent' after its manager Advocate Albert Christopher, included Schraj Raj (teacher at Depot Road school); E. Sewsunkar Sham (headmaster at Umhloti School); ARamithlal (president of the Hindu Young Men's Society); J.M. Soodyall (Higher Grade School who served as a stretcher bearer during the First World War, being awarded a British War Star and Silver Badge); P.Moosa (St Aidan's School); AH. Seedat (Higher Grade Indian School); R. Ramith (Government Aided School); A. Gafoor (Durban Government Elementary School);Ajmath AGany (Durban Government Elementary School); G. • Doorsamy (Higher Grade Indian School); and P. B.

64 Latest, 15 December 1923.

DDICU AGM, 1 October 1919.

65

66 DDICU Annual Report, 16 October 1920.

67 Latest, 6 December 1918.

68 DDICU committee meeting, 28 October 1911.

69 Ibid., 23 December 1912.

70 Ibid., 26 March 1923.

71 Indian Opinion, 18 February 1927.

Singh (Higher Grade Indian School).

72 Latest, 19 January 1914.

96 K. Reddy, The Other Side: A Miscellany of Cricket in Natal (Durban: KwaZulu-Natal Cricket Union, 1999).

Hindi, 21 November 1924.

73

74 Latest, 2 February 1918.

97 Statesman, 15 January 1922.

75 R. Bughwan, South African Cricket Brochure (Durban,

98 Latest, 15 April 1922.

1950), 20.