HENRY SALAMON LEON POLAK

About the middle of 1903, it had occurred to him that, if the South African Indians were to be brought into closer association with each other and with their European fellow-colonists, and to be politically and socially educated, it was absolutely necessary to have a newspaper, and, after consultation, he provided the greater part of the capital for its inauguration, with the late Mr. M. H. Nazar as editor, and thus the Indian Opinion was born. It was published in English, Gujarati, Hindi and Tamil. For various reasons, it afterwards became necessary to dispense with the Tamil and Hindi columns.

-Henry Salmon Leon Polak, Mahatma Gandhi: The Man and His Mission (1927).