This paper plays on the word re-location to explore the memories of Indians in South Africa via oral histories about relocation as a result of the Group Areas Act, to memories of parents and grandparents relocating to South Africa from India as told to interviewers and to their own memories of journeys to India and back. The narratives of mobilities cross time and national boundaries and are counter-posed by narratives of local mobilities as well as stasis. The paper distinguishes ways of narrating, themes of narration and the meaning of memories while noting the re-location of memory construction against the backdrop of South Africa’s democratic transition and the 150th commemoration of the arrival of indentured Indians to South Africa. It asserts that the local and the national are important in narrations of transnational journeys, thus promoting a specific approach to transnational memory studies.