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Statue of Mahatma Gandhi, Pietermaritzburg

statue in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ56477159 ↗
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Mahatma Gandhi is a bronze statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Church Street, Pietermaritzburg, depicting the Indian independence campaigner and nonviolent pacifist as a young man.

The statue was unveiled in 1993 by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, marking the centenary since Gandhi was thrown from a train at Pietermaritzburg railway station.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1993—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1993. The account is most persuasive where Statue, Mahatma and Gandhi can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Statue of Mahatma Gandhi, Pietermaritzburg” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.