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Bapu - The host In Johannesburg, Gandhiji would get up early,
offer his prayers, sometimes would grind the wheat, light the
stove and place the kettle to warm the water. The toilet buckets
of the house were being cleaned in a six to ten feet high tank.
The water from bathing and cleaning accumulated in the tank.
Once in a week, a troop of Blacks from the municipality would
come with a big iron tank, pulled by two horses, to empty this
water tank of the house. After the cleaning work was over, the
Blacks would get themselves cleaned and in cold days would come
shivering to Gandhiji due to lack of enough woolen clothes. It
was Gandhiji’s routine to pour hot tea, made by him, in their
tumblers. While enjoying the hot tea, they would express their
thanks and gratitude to Gandhiji and at the same time they would
raise their left hand and say in the Zulu language: “ `Kos Baba
fezlu’ - ` God is up there in the heaven’, but we get assurance
of His presen