ABSTRACT
After a whole year without any lucrative employment, Mohandas' older brother introduced him to an associate of Dada Abdullah and Company, one of the most successful firms in Natal, a South African state located on the shores of the Indian Ocean and of which Durban is the capital. On his arrival in Durban, the frail, turbaned Indian had been to the Courts to register himself when a magistrate ordered him to remove his headgear. Mohandas Gandhi could not change humanity all by himself, but what he was about to do in South Africa he would later do in India. It was therefore decided that twenty rich merchants would put together 300 pounds to keep him in Durban. He became a lawyer at the High Court, then rose to the Supreme Court in Natal on the sole condition that he remove his turban before presenting his case.
