How then go beyond having adversaries? By pure understanding. Love is the common factor between any creature and me. Understanding creates love. I make my enemy, I understand him, and of this love is born. The adversary thus becomes my own self. If Smuts sent Gandhi to prison, Smuts became a lifelong friend. If Kruger hated the Indians (Kruger believed the Indians had no soul) then Kruger had to be shown what the Indians were. Truth always prevails. If the English wanted to drive us out of Africa, it is because we are so greedy, so dirty. We undersell the white man, the Englishman, the Boer, we throw garbage into our backyards. We live in filth, we Indians do. That is why the whites have sent us to the ghettoes. Plague comes to the Indians because of the filth we live in. Gandhi thus helped a hospital to give aid to the sick and the dying. And just as plague comes to the Indians wars come to the white man. The Boers hate the British, because Rhodes and his associates have tried to take away the Boer’s hard-won land. Rhodes dreamt of a United Nations of the world, only it would be painted red, be British. The Boers wanted to be left alone, in this wild and rich land, with their Bibles, their kraals, their isolated cottages. The British wanted cities, vast flow of commerce, and modernity. So, and especially after gold was found in Kimberley, the Boers and the British went to war. Gandhi was ever a loyal subject. ‘I implicitly believed,’ he wrote later, ‘that the sum total of the activities of the British Empire was good for India, and for humanity.’ But Gandhi also felt deep respect for the hard-headed and hard-working Boers. He offered his services and that of the Indian community to the British, he raised volunteers to help the wounded and the dying. This was entirely because of his loyalty to the queen, and finally because of his loyalty to man. He would be a gentleman in all circumstances. The British refused the offer, but when they were losing the battles they invited the Indian ambulance corps to help on the battlefield. Gandhi was cited several times in Lord Robert’s dispatches. The queen sent him a medal.