What was the name of Mahatma Gandhi’s weekly journal launched in South Africa in 1903?

Indian Opinion was the weekly journal launched by Mahatma Gandhi in South Africa in 1903.

The newspaper was founded at Phoenix, near Durban, and became an important platform for reporting discrimination against the Indian community. It appeared in several languages, including English, Gujarati, Hindi, and Tamil, allowing it to reach readers from different parts of South Africa’s Indian population.

Gandhi used Indian Opinion to explain political developments, encourage community organization, and promote the principles that later became associated with satyagraha. The publication also connected local struggles with wider debates about civil rights, racial legislation, and the treatment of Indians under colonial rule.

Indian Opinion is sometimes confused with Gandhi’s later Indian journals. Young India was an English-language weekly he edited in India from 1919, while Navajivan was a Gujarati publication. Harijan began in 1933 and focused particularly on campaigns against untouchability. Indian Opinion belongs specifically to Gandhi’s South African period and continued publication for decades after its founding.