Manmohan Singh leaves for South Africa

Saturday, September 30, 2006, 8:02 [IST]

New Delhi, Sep 30: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh left on a three-day official visit to Durban and the twin cities of Johannesburg and Pretoria in South Africa here today.

In September 1906, Mahatma Gandhi began his Satyagraha from South Africa to oust British rulers from India. Exactly hundred years later, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh travels to the country to relive those moments.

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