Nurdin Dharamsi Rawji

Mr. Nurdin Dharamsi Rawji

Honorary Titles

• "Jumbe" !0 Cell leader TANU

All Nicknames

• Bhuree

Town of birth

• Zanzibar

Country of birth

• Tanzania

Date of Birth

• 1924/04/24

Date of Death

• 2008/06/06

Place of Death

• Edmonton

Name of Cemetery and plot no

• Ismaili Cemetery
• Edmonton

Name of institution of highest education achieved

• 12 Grade
• Ak Boys
• Dar es Salaam

Place of longest stay

• Dar es Salaam

Profession or occupation carriedout for the longest period in life

• Dukawalla-Merchant

Where-City or Country

• Tanzania

Family tree

Parents

Dharamsi Rawji Gangji Nayani

Sikina Walji Kanji

Siblings

Abdul Dharamsi Rawji

Daulat Karim Rhemtulla

Dolatkhanu Dharamsi Rawji

Fatehali Dharamsi Rawji

Gulamali Dharamsi Rawji

Gulshan Dharamsi Rawji

Gulshan F.H. Walji

Mariam Dharamsi Rawji

Nurbanu Ismail Nathoo

Gulshan F. H. Walji

Sadrudin Dharamsi Rawji

Sherbanu Alibhai Harji

Sadrudin Rawji

Sherbanu Dharamsi Rawji

Partners

Kulsum Nurdin Dharamsi

Children

Amin Nurdin Dharamsi

Mohamed Dharamsi

Shiraz Dharamsi

Born in 1924 Zanzibar

Sikina Walji Kanji(Born in).

Dharamsi Rawji Gangji Nayani(Born in Zanzibar).

Nurdin Bha was educated first in Zanzibar and acquired his Swahili skills there.

He then came to Dar es Salaam to go to secondary school at the Agakhan Boys School, where he was a head prefect as well as an avid soccer player.

Upon completion, as was the norm, he joined his father’s business which was a pawn shop, taking good on pledge for cash loans.

Eventually, he started his own pawn shop business on Nyamwezi Street, the Karikoo market area and later after his marriage, moving to a larger premises on the main thoroughfare, Msimbazi Street.

Nurdin was politically aware and went to become a community leader as 10-cell leader. In this position, he acted as alocal arbitrator for up to 10 homes in his area.

His special service was to teach English to African ladies in his neighbourhood.

TRIBUTE

Dear Iqbal,

This is wonderful. It brings back memories of the past so wonderfully well. Nurdin and I played football in Dar es Salaam. He was known as "Bhuree" because of the colour of his eyes. He was deeply religious. My wife Maherun and his wife are close friends. Thank you for bringing my old memory back.

Sincerely, Ya-Ali-Madad.

Shamshtabrez Dhirani June 2017

38. At the turn of the twentieth century in German colonial Dar es Salaam, there were about seven shopkeepers, who exclusively focused their business on pawnbroking. Various other Asian shopkeepers were involved in pawnbroking, but they were oicially registered as shopkeepers. In 1928 in British colonial Dar es Salaam, there were eight licensed pawnbrokers. They were legally allowed to provide loans for three months with interest of 6 cents per shilling per month. The Dar es Salaam pawnbrokers claimed in 1930 that each one of them attended to about 300 to 400 customers on the first day of each month (Letter by Kaiserlicher Bezirksamtmann Londau, Dar es Salaam, June 30, 1904, TNA: G1/29:Handel und Gewerbe im Allgemeinen, Bd. 2: 1901 1906; Letter by Brett, Provincial Commissioner, Dar es Salaam, to the Chief Secretary, May 5, 1928, TNA: 12,230/Vol. I: Pawnbrokers, Registration of; Letter by the Pawnbrokers of Dar es Salaam, represented by W. Dharsee, Dar es Salaam, March 31, 1930, TNA: 12,230/Vol. I: Pawnbrokers, Registration of).