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ANTI-APARTHEID ACTIVISTS SAY IT IS RACIST AND DANGEROUS JANINE MOODLEY janine.moodley@inl.co.za Supplied ANTI-APARTHEID stalwarts and prominent members of the Indian community in South Africa have spoken out against an initiative they have dubbed racist, destructive, divisive and dangerous. The initiative, “Park by the Pozie”, is being organised by the National Indian Congress of South Africa. Little is known about the organisation, including the office-bearers and source of funding. The only person to be publicly associated with the organisation is “Karou Charou”, the alter ego of entertainer Sagren Madhevan Moodley. He is formerly from Chatsworth but now lives in Johannesburg. Moodley has called on Indian South Africans in Durban to stay home this Saturday to show other South Africans how economically powerful Indian South Africans are. This week, former members of…
Not in our name JANINE MOODLEY janine.moodley@inl.co.za • Judge Thumba Pillay: “I am totally against it. A photo of myself and other activists were used on Facebook, suggesting that we were part of the campaign and I am very upset about that. I have actually taken it up. While we understand the grievances, this movement will not help the cause but will create further division.” • Kiru Naidoo, author and historian, said: “A nameless, vulgar man is doing damage to our society. I am also concerned about the faceless business people funding this incitement of racial strife. They are lighting a fire. Rascals run away when it gets hot. These pozie people are not powerful, they are pathetic.” • Yogan Moodley, who joined the ANC’s underground movement in 1978, said:…
SECOND ROBBERY IN A YEAR Ex-cop and wife shot in home invasion CHARLENE SOMDUTH charlene.somduth@inl.co.za DAYS before Sagie and Salosh Naidoo celebrated their 41st wedding anniversary, he was shot in the leg and she in the arm during an armed robbery at their home in Newlands West. The attack took place last Wednesday. Sagie 63, a former policeman, was shot in the right leg. It had to be amputated due to excessive bleeding. He is in a stable condition in hospital. Salosh, 62, a housewife, was punched in the face and shot in the left arm. She suffered nerve damage and is unable to use her arm. Salosh had moved in with her daughter in Phoenix but on Tuesday was readmitted to hospital for further tests. Recalling the incident, she…
WAS SAVING TO BUY A CAR Truck lover killed a week before his birthday NADIA KHAN nadia.khan@inl.co.za A CLAIRWOOD truck driver was killed a week before he celebrated his 25th birthday. Claude Lee Deepchand, 24, was returning to Durban from Johannesburg when his horse-and-trailer apparently crashed into a similar truck on the N3 after the Church Street off-ramp in Pietermaritzburg last Monday. He died at the scene. Deepchand’s relative, Sillest Kelly Chutergun, said: “As a child he loved drawing pictures of trucks, not missing a single detail. Trucks were his life. The passion never died. As he got older, he used to go to the truck yard and sit in the trucks. He also washed them to earn pocket money. After he completed school, he got his Code 14 licence…
‘ALLEGATIONS WERE FABRICATED’ ‘My father died a hero’ CHARLENE SOMDUTH charlene.somduth@inl.co.za Supplied FOR Jordan Basdeo his father will always be his hero. Prem Basdeo, 60, was to stand trial in the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria for the alleged murder of his second wife, Dawn Basdeo. But he was shot and killed during an armed robbery and attempted hijacking last Sunday in Atteridgeville, Gauteng. Basdeo, was a former superintendent at Sydenham SAPS in Durban. Basdeo, formerly from Southgate, Phoenix, was previously charged with the murder of his first wife, Neetha. In December 2000, Neetha's body was found in a shipping container with a single gunshot wound to the head. They were living in the container with Jordan, who was 16 at the time, while their home underwent renovations. Basdeo…
‘EVERY WEEK YOU HEAR OF A NEW INCIDENT’ Armed robbers act with impunity THANDEKA MGQIBI Thandeka.Mgqibi@inl.co.za FAMILIES in KwaZulu-Natal are under attack by criminals. According to recent crime statistics, the highest number of housebreakings were recorded in this province (335000 incidents) during April last year and March this year. Even those living in informal settlements, like Siyathuthuka in Sea Cow Lake, are not safe. In the past few weeks an armed gang has terrorised Siyathuthuka residents. “It has become very dangerous here and we are scared to even walk outside, even when it's during the day. We close and lock our doors as early as 6pm,” said a resident, who declined to be named. The resident said the gang was not from the area. “There are rogues here in this…
