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He subsequently was unable to return to South Africa as he married an Indian citizen and South African apartheid laws would not allow his wife and children into the country, Dhupelia-Mesthrie said.He worked as a journalist for the Times of India.
Women in the Phoenix Settlement, founded by Gandhi in 1904 in South Africa, were unrestrained by social taboos and had more freedom than their counterparts anywhere in India. With his experience of South Africa behind him, Gandhi was aware of the potential of women as satyagrahis. He also firmly believed that ‘women of India should have as much share in the winning of swaraj as men