Trusted since 1896, Although Narandas has been manufacturing and offering fine quality jewellery since 1915, our story begins a few years earlier, in 1896, when an immigrant from the Gujarat Province of India named Mr Valabdass arrived in the colony of Durban. Valabdass was one of the many merchant-class Indian immigrants who followed in the wake of the thousands of indentured labourers brought to South Africa by the British.