Indres naidoo wiki

Just before she was introduced, I announced that Indres and other banned people were fasting in solidarity with the demand to release prisoners, even though this opened them to charges of contravening the terms of their banning orders, and me to a charge of quoting a banned person. The tactics of this defiance had been canvassed with Indres and others before the campaign began.

For me personally, knowing that Indres had been an MK operative involved in sabotage helped crystalize my views on the place of armed struggle. His influence helped to reframe approaches to violence and non-violence in politics, and the issues of legality and illegality. Indres Naidoo was an activist and shaper of history. He was one of the very first I met from the Island, and his influence and effect on that early s generation of Johannesburg white radicals was significant.

Looking at a photograph of the way I remember him in Rocky Street — the big beard, the wide smile, the charm and charisma — I mourn his passing. Inthe company asked its black employees to take a lie detector test: Indres refused, considering that an affront to dignity, and was fired. The Polaroid Corporation had undertaken, because of public pressure in the United States, not to sell its products to the military and repressive agencies in South Africa.

It claimed that its agent, Frank and Hirsch, was following liberal employment policies and assisting blacks. Indres produced proof that Frank and Hirsch was secretly supplying Polaroid products to the South African regime. There were strong protests in the United States and Polaroid was obliged to close its operations in South Africa.

While in Mozambique, Indres worked in the office of the ANC and was actively involved in activities of MK, of which he was a leading member. After the democratic elections inhe was elected an ANC Senator and then a Member of Parliament from until InPenguin published Island in Chainsa book by him on his experiences in Robben Island prison. The second edition in contains an epilogue describing his activities in Mozambique, Lusaka and Berlin.

He is survived by his wife Gabriele Blankenburg. Indres Naidoo. First name. Middle name. The party then moved to Sabarmati Ashram. Naidoo's husband Roy returned home to South Africa in Naidoo worked closely with him. She joined him in the Passive Resistance campaigns and courted imprisonment which she served bravely. In she again joined the defiance campaign and was again imprisoned.

In she marched to the Union buildings with 20, women against the pass laws. There were candlelight processions, night vigils, and in she marched to the Union Buildings in protest against the formation of the South African Indian Council created by the apartheid government. She was outspoken and ready to participate in political activity. She watched all her children ShanthieIndresMurthie, Ramnie and Prema being imprisoned, detained, tortured and harassed by the apartheid security police but remained steadfast right to the end.

The Naidoo home was always a hive of activity. Mandela enjoyed her crab curries. He dragged Bram to events where Naidoo invariably became the life indres naidoo wiki the party. Every morning he sang Day-O to wake Bram, who reflects that his father always "wanted to go home", as the Jamaican song popularised by Harry Belafonte relates. After 's Nkomati Accord, most ANC operatives left Mozambique, but Naidoo, with Jacob Zuma and four others, remained until the apartheid regime forced their expulsion in While Naidoo was in Maputo en route to Berlin, Sachs was severely injured by a car bomb.

It emerged much later that Naidoo was the target. He married anti-apartheid campaigner Gabriele "Gabi" Blankenburg, whom he had met in Germany.

Indres naidoo wiki

Elected to parliament on the ANC list, he moved to Cape Town and was sworn in as a senator for Gauteng, a position he held until he retired in Naidoo was in poor health for several years. His official provincial funeral service is today at the Johannesburg City Hall from 11am. From World War 1 to present-day cosmopolitan South Africa and beyond, the Sunday Times has been a pillar in covering the stories that matter to you.

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