How many years Mahatma Gandhi spent in South Africa?

Mahatma Gandhi spent about 21 years in South Africa. It was during his tenure there where he would get his honorific ‘Mahatma’. He also first employed nonviolent resistance in a campaign for civil rights.

He would return to India in 1915, where he would spearhead the Indian Independence movement using the nonviolent methods he used in South Africa.

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