Sarvodaya Current Affairs, GK & News
Pietermaritzburg hosts Mandela-Gandhi Youth Conference 2018
The Mandela-Gandhi Youth Conference was held at Pietermaritzburg in South Africa on June 8, 2018. The conference was part of a 3-day commemoration of the historic incident 125 years ago when on June 7, 1893, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, a young lawyer then, was thrown off a train compartment reserved for whites only. Delegates from a ..
Topics: Activism • Activists • Ahimsa • Gandhism • Mahatma Gandhi • Sarvodaya • Satyagraha
President visits Phoenix Settlement, Durban
During her recent visit to South Africa, President Pratibha Patil visited the Phoenix Settlement. Phoenix Settlement: Founded by Mahatma Gandhi in 1904 on the north-western edge of Durban, South Africa to experiment with Satyagraha, Sarvodaya and Ahimsa (non-violence). It was here Gandhiji first used 3 principles to champion the cause of mine and sugarcane workers, ..
Month: Current Affairs - May, 2012
Topics: Activism • Activists • Gandhism • Gujarati people • Indian people • Mahatma Gandhi • Sarvodaya • Satyagraha • Tolstoyans • Vegetarians