Short answers, pulled from the story.
The Natal Indian Congress formally opened on the 22nd of August 1894 at a meeting in Durban. Abdoola Hajee Adam Jhaveri became the first president while Mahatma Gandhi took the role of honorary secretary.
Monty Naicker ousted moderate leaders A. I. Kajee and P. R. Pather at the annual conference held on the 21st of October 1945. Naicker installed himself as president alongside associates Doctor Goonam, I. C. Meer, George Ponnen, H. A. Naidoo, and Marimuthu Pragalathan Naicker to transform the organization toward militant resistance.
Passive resistance against the Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act began on the 13th of June 1946 when participants called the law the Ghetto Act. The campaign continued for two years until 1948 when almost 2,000 arrests were made across the country.
Mewa Ramgobin described the organization as dormant and moribund during this decade due to severe restrictions including imprisonment for dual membership in Umkhonto we Sizwe. Monty Naicker, Dawood Seedat, J. N. Singh, and I. C. Meer received prolonged banning orders under the Suppression of Communism Act while forced removals disrupted civic mobilization patterns throughout Natal.
An ad hoc committee chaired by Ramgobin established twenty-nine branches within a month before the official relaunch convention held at Phoenix Settlement on the 2nd of October 1971. This meeting coincided with Gandhi's birthday and followed a decision to revive the organization made at Durban's Bolton Hall on the 25th of June 1971.