The chairperson of the United Progressive Alliance, which rules India, is in South Africa to enhance political, economic and cultural relations between her country and South Africa.
As part of the centennial celebrations of Gandhi's Satyagraha -- which he first enunciated in South Africa -- Sonia will deliver a speech at the University of Cape Town.
Long before he became the Mahatma, Mohandas K Gandhi lived for many years in South Africa, a nation where he conceived his philosophy of non-violent political resistance. One of his grand-daughters Ela Ramgobin still lives in Durban.
Photograph: Sonia Gandhi at the presidential guesthouse in Cape Town. Photograph: Gianluigi Guercia/AFP/Getty Images
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