Overview
Identifiers
Alternate Site Codes
CPT/NAMM/0061
Inventory Number
2930CB396
Site Name
Statue of Mahatma Gandhi, Church Street, Pietermaritzburg
Site Category
Record Administration
Post date
Monday, February 15, 2021 - 10:32
Last modified
Thursday, May 2, 2024 - 21:26
Monuments
Monuments & Memorials Recordings
Submitted by sahrisprojectmanager on Monday, February 15, 2021 - 10:32.
Identifiers
Classifications
Monument Type
Description
To commemorate Mahatma Gandhi as he was forcefully removed from the train in Pietermaritzburg station.
Original Position
Original Positioned
Contains Animal figures?
No
Contains Human figures?
No
Construction Materials
Bronze
Pedestal Material
Concrete
Person/Institution Commemorated
Event Commemorated
Him being thrown out of the first class in the train station in pietermaritzburg in 7 June 1893.
Inscriptions
"None-Violence is not a cloistered Virtue. It is no Impossible idea... It Is capable of being practiced by the million...It is the soul force within every human being...The path of true non-violence requires much more courage than violence", Mahatma Gandhi.
Location
Location
Mapping
-29.602107, 30.378326
KwaZulu-Natal
- Umgungundlovu
- The Msunduzi
Directions to Site
It's in Grand Parade between Darling Street and Corporation Street.
Access details
Public Accessible
Media
Media
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