Rawji Gangji Nayani
- Parents
KisimaJONGO is an area in Zanzibar – quite well known
ALL of our Rawji Gangji Family elders are from this area.
(with main business called “Duka Ya Poni” – Pawn Shops)
All are from Kisimajongo area
Literally means Well of Jongo, the Tiku Pen type insects
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).
