In a new multi-cultural South Africa, Indian and African communities are now trying to overcome their chequered relations.

The Apartheid regime's forced segregation between Whites, Africans and Indians effectively prevented cultural and social integration between the Indian and African communities.

Has this divide remained in a post-Apartheid South Africa? Does the Indian community still find itself in the middle - neither black or white enough?

The programme explains why Indians were brought as indentured labourers to South Africa and the subsequent struggles by the great Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi, who spent 21 years in South Africa.

Ethirajan Anbarasan travelled to Durban, Johannesburg and Cape Town to trace how Indians related to other communities in the past and how they are fitting into the new South Africa today.

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First broadcast in July 2004. Produced by Ethirajan Anbarasan of the BBC's Tamil Service.