Gandhi's racism and other proclivities are well documented but often willfully ignored. His prejudice against indentured labourers and blacks is said to have tempered by the time he left SA in 1914. To ascribe the achievements of Indians to the "Indian Privilege" achieved through  Gandhi's campaigns is incredibly simplistic and misleading. sahistory.org.za explores this in some detail. Cachalia does something Ms Faki's article fails to: provide context and highlight the contribution of home-grown leaders to the struggle. It is ironic that questions regarding whether Indians had suffered enough hit fever pitch during Ahmed Timol's inquest. Ms Fakie has fanned the flames. Her final call to talk is incongruent with the rest of the article in which she refers to the lowliest of behaviours and posits that as representative of  a people. I find her request disingenuous but she has succeeded in getting us talking ...even if it took "self-flagellation" to achieve it.