Then in 1870 a wave of emigrants from southern China left their strife-torn homeland for a new life overseas, making their way to South Africa via Mauritius and Madagascar.
到了一八七○年，由於中國境內發生內亂和水災，民生艱困，為了求生存，華人源源自中國南方，途經模里西斯和馬達加斯加，到達南非。