The government quelled the protest easily, but the public outcry constrained the South African leader, Jan Christiaan Smuts, to negotiate a compromise with Gandhi. The community adopted this plan, and during the ensuing seven-year struggle, thousands of Indians were jailed, flogged, or shot for striking, refusing to register, for burning their registration cards or engaging in other forms of nonviolent resistance. He urged Indians to boycott the new law and to suffer the retribution for doing so. At the same time, Gandhi started 'Satyagraha,' a non-violent protest in South Africa. Unregistered persons and restricted immigrants could be deported without a right of appeal or fined on the spot if they failed to comply with Act. A new act was promulgated by Transvaal govt in 1906 as per this Act, every male Asian had to register himself and produce on-demand a thumb-printed certificate of identity.He helped found the Natal Indian Congress in 1894, and through this organization, he molded the Indian community of South Africa into a unified political force.He asked Joseph Chamberlain, the British Colonial Secretary, to reconsider his position on this bill. Gandhi witnessed racism, prejudice, injustice against himself and Indians in South Africa, after witnessing all this, Gandhi extended his original period of stay in South Africa to help Indians in opposing a bill to deny them the right to vote.
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