Dr Abdullah Abdurahman: South Africaęs First Elected Black Politician

He led South African Indians to Delhi, confronted the Viceroy and made a memorable address to the Indian National Congress. At his death in 1940 Cape Town ground to a halt as the entire community paid their respects. Drawing on previously undiscovered material, this biography lifts Dr Abdurahman from the obscurity into which he has so unjustly sunk ? explaining his life against the background of the difficult times in which he lived.