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Pietermaritzburg accommodation. The Gandhi Statue in Pietermaritzburg is a beautiful sculpture. Gandhi is depicted as a young lawyer in his law attire with a breeze blowing his cloak to one side. The statue is atop a plinth surrounded by wooden benches, which offer a fine view-point for this work of art.
The events that inspired this statue were rather unfortunate. Mahatma Gandhi, the famous freedom fighter from India, was pursuing a course in Law in South Africa when the Boer war broke out. While Gandhi was traveling on a train in Pietermaritzburg, he was asked to change from a first class compartment to a third class compartment, purely on the basis that he was not white. Upon his polite refusal, Gandhi was disembarked from the train. This incident would go on to dictate many of Gandhi's principles from that day forth.
The unfortunate events that transpired with Gandhi that night in Pietermaritzburg inspired Gandhi to fight against racial abuse in South Africa. After Gandhi established the roots for Satyagraha ('passive resistance'), he left for India to pursue the path of freedom for India from the British empire.
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