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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (5374)	7/29/1999 10:32:00 AM
From: ratan lal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

Mohan - meanwhile in the continuing saga of Thackeray...... There is tension reported from Bombay with the Shiv Sena members incensed at the decision by the Election Commission. 207.82.250.251 ratan

To: Mohan Marette who wrote (5374)	7/29/1999 10:36:00 AM
From: JPR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

Better late than never. Gandhi is now a member of Natal Law Society According to a report in NY Times, Gandhi received a posthumous apology for not being admitted into Natal LAw Society. By SUZANNE DALEY OHANNESBURG, South Africa -- One hundred and five years after it tried to keep Mohandas K. Gandhi from practicing law because he was "not of European descent," the Natal Law Society has unconditionally apologized for its actions. Gandhi, who had moved to South Africa to represent an Indian-based trading company, was the first nonwhite to apply for credentials from the society, which promptly turned him down. The society, the equivalent of the bar association, listed several technical reasons for objecting to Gandhi in addition to his race. But when Gandhi appealed his case, the country's chief justice admitted him to the bar. In a statement, the society said, "The society apologizes unconditionally, albeit posthumously, to the late Mahatma Gandhi for having attempted to restrict his rights to practice as an advocate in Natal." It added that the apology also extended to "all other aspirant lawyers whose access to the profession was restricted in any way on the basis of racial grounds." David Randles, the president of the society, said that over the years the society had noted numerous calls for it to apologize unreservedly for its racist treatment of Gandhi, who arrived as a young lawyer in South Africa in 1893. During his nearly 20 years here, Gandhi -- inspired by being forced out of a first-class car on a train even though he had paid for a first-class ticket -- developed his philosophy of passive resistance and led numerous human rights protest marches and strikes, resulting in his imprisonment on several occasions. After reaching an agreement with the South African government on Indian rights, Gandhi returned to India in 1914, eventually leading his country to full independence from Britain in 1947. He was shot dead by a Hindu fanatic in New Delhi, India, on Jan. 30, 1948. In the last few years, the society has made several attempts to apologize, but the attempts have all been found wanting, Randles said. Calls for a further apology kept cropping up. "We wanted to be unambiguous in our apology and put the matter to rest," Randles said. "This is really a very well-intentioned apology." JPR