In the footsteps of Gandhi
An edition of In the footsteps of Gandhi (2007)
an illustrated history of Johannesburg's Linksfield Ridge and environs
By Alkis Doucakis
Publish Date
2007
Publisher
Colors
Language
eng
Pages
80
Description:
A history of the suburb of Linksfield Ridge and its environs was documented because some world-famous people sojourned here: Mahatma Gandhi, Reza Shah Pahlavi (Shah of Iran), and Prince Paul and Princess Olga of Yugoslavia. Here, too, it was proved to the world that "heavier-than-air" machines could fly at altitudes of about 1 800 metres above sea level. Field Marshal Lord Roberts stopped overnight here on his march to Pretoria during the Second Anglo-Boer War. "There is no God but Allah and Mahomet is his prophet", was inscribed in an Indian cemetery. "Little Italy" flourished here, its ancestors having been the *cartucciere* of a nearby dynamite factory. An imposing graveyard of one of South Africa's prominent figures, Sir George Farrar, lies on a nearby hill. South Africa's first "all-electric house" was built here by Hermann Kallenbach, Gandhi's great friend and financier. The histories of all schools, places of worship and clubs are recorded among others.