9 May 1950
Bhawani Sannyassi Dayal, journalist and campaigner for Indian rights in SA, died in Ajmer, India. Dayal was one of the organisers of the Indian strike led by Mohandas Gandhi at Newcastle in 1913, and was a representative of the Natal Indian Congress (NIC). References: Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) New Dictionary of South African Biography, v. 2.