When he reached Bombay, he found out that his mother was dead.

He couldn't speak in the court, then he returned to Rajkot and started again, where he wasn't happy.
An offer from Dada Abdulla & Co. to proceed to South Africa on their behalf to instruct their counsel in lawsuit changed his life. Gandhi sailed for South Africa in April 1893.
It was in South Africa that the shy, timid youth of twenty-fout, inexperienced, unaided, alone, clashed with forces that obliged him to tap his hidden moral resources and turn misfortunes into creative spiritual experiences.
His client, Abdulla Sheth, received Gandhi in Durban.
Indians and other people were despised, humiliated by white people.A week late, Gandhi went to Pretoria, the capital of the Transvaal, where his presence was necessary for a process. He would train in first class, was expelled for entering the third class of "guilt" of his color. Gandhi refused and was thrown off the train.
In the cold waiting room, Gandhi thought it was to fight for their rights or flee back to India, choosing the first option.

Insulted more times after that incident, Gandhi made contacts to convene a meeting with the Indian community that lived at the place, making his first public speech.
Several incidents showed the injustice and prejudice suffered on site.
Gandhi had many excuses to drop everything and run away, but put up with all the violence, injustice, prejudice, the insults, all that was left behind and Gandhi endured every day for a purpose: to help those in need.
Gandhi ended his legal work in the region, returned to Durban and went back home.
at a farewell dinner in his honor, someone showed him a news that the government proposed a law to cancel the civil rights of Indians.
Gandhi said it was "the first nail in our coffin" and urged his compatriots to resist with a "Concerned action"
Because of its great importance, asked him to stay for a month. He agreed, not knowing that one month would turn twenty years.

After this, Gandhi drew up a petition in the Natal Legislative Assembly. Volunteers helped by making copies of the petition and collecting signatures, making the printed help in advertising, so great was the effect.
            Even with all this work the project was accepted, but Gandhi did not give up. He began working in another application.
             A month later, the "mammoth" petition had ten thousand signatures and was sent to the secretary of state of the colony, besides a thousand copies printed for distribution.
            The newspaper "The Times", famous worldwide, acknowledged the justice of the Indian claim, and for the first time the people of India came to know the hard lot of their compatriots in South Africa
            It is noteworthy that Gandhi did not charge for their "services", only sulficiente what he said to keep your expenses (300 pounds).