MUNIAMMA FAMILY HISTORY BOOK LAUNCH IN PICTURES

THE DESCENDANTS OF INDENTURED ANCESTORS IN DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA HAVE LAUNCHED THEIR MUNIAMMA FAMILY HISTORY BOOK, "FLIGHT OF YOUNG LOVERS", AT THE ENCHANTED GARDENS CONFERENCE CENTRE IN THE CITY ON SATURDAY, APRIL 28 2018. MORE THAN 200 FAMILY MEMBERS FROM ALL OVER SOUTH AFRICA ATTENDED THE HISTORIC EVENT TO PAY TRIBUTE TO THEIR ANCESTORS WHO ARRIVED FROM TAMIL NADU IN INDIA IN MARCH 1882, THEIR TWO DAUGHTERS - MUNIAMMA AND YELLAMMA - AND THEIR SECOND GENERATION DESCENDANTS WHO GAVE BIRTH TO THE GREATER MUNIAMMA FAMILY. THE FAMILY TODAY RUNS INTO SIX GENERATIONS AND NUMBERS MORE THAN 500. THE BOOK WAS RESEARCHED, COMPILED, AND EDITED BY ONE OF THE THIRD GENERATION DESCENDANTS, MARIMUTHU SUBRAMONEY (AKA SUBRY GOVENDER), A VETERAN STRUGGLE JOURNALIST WHO WAS INVOLVED AS AN ACTIVIST JOURNALIST DURING THE STRUGGLES AGAINST APARTHEID AND WHITE MINORITY RULE IN THE 1970S AND 1980S. THESE PHOTOS ARE OF FAMILY MEMBERS WHO ATTENDED THE FUNCTION:

(THE BOOK, FLIGHT OF YOUNG LOVERS, DISPLAYED IN FRONT OF THE PHOTOS OF MUNIAMMA'S ELDEST SON, PERI NADASEN GOVENDER, AND HIS SECOND WIFE, SALATCHIE)

(PHOTOS OF THE FIRST GENERATION DAUGHTER, MUNIAMMA, AND HER HUSBAND, COOPOOSAMY GOVENDER, WHO GAVE BIRTH TO 14 CHILDREN, 11 OF WHOM WHO SURVIVED TO GIVE BIRTH TO MORE THAN 500 FAMILY MEMBERS, RUNNING INTO SIX GENERATIONS TODAY)

(PHOTOS OF MUNIAMMA AND SOME OF HER SONS AND DAUGHTERS THAT WERE DISPLAYED IN THE MEMORY STAND AT THE BOOK LAUNCH CEREMONY)

(PHOTOS OF DEPARTED SOULS OF THE FIRST AND SECOND GENERATION DESCENDANTS OF THE MUNIAMMA FAMILY DISPLAYED ON THE MEMORY STAND)

(SECOND GENERATION DESCENDANTS WHO ARE STILL AROUND TODAY ARE MRS AMOY MOODLEY (83), MRS SOUNDLER GOVENDER, WIFE OF PERI BOYA PERCY GOVENDER, AND IN THE WHEEL CHAIR, MRS SAVUNDALAY PADAYCHEE, OF THE NORTHERN KWAZULU-NATAL TOWN OF DUNDEE. THERE ARE ALSO THIRD GENERATION ELDERS IN THE PHOTO - MRS PANJALA NAIDOO AND RUMBA NAIR IN WHEEL CHAIR)

(SOME OF THE DESCENDANTS AND SPOUSES OF THE ELDEST CHILD, BAIGIUM NAIDOO. SEEN IN THE PICTURE ARE THE ELDERS - MR BENNY REDDY, SON-IN-LAW, AND MRS ANEE NAIDOO, DAUGHTER-IN-LAW AND WIFE OF BOYA NAIDOO)

(DESCENDANTS OF THE SECOND CHILD - PERI NADASEN GOVENDER)

(DESCENDANTS OF THE THIRD CHILD - CHINNA NADASEN GOVENDER)

(SOOBOO GOVENDER FAMILY DESCENDANTS)

(DESCENDANTS OF ISAAC MUNSAMY RUTHINSAMY GOVENDER)

(SOME DESCENDANTS OF VELAYADAM DICK GOVENDER)

(SOME DESCENDANTS OF SALATCHIE SUBRAMONEY FAMILY)

(SOME DESCENDANTS OF DUNDEE SAVUNDALAYA AUNTY FAMILY)

(SOME DESCENDANTS OF PATCHA FAMILY)

(SOME MEMBERS OF THE AMOY MOODLEY FAMILY) MIXED PHOTOS

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(ENDS - SUBRY GOVENDER - subrygovender@gmail.com May 2 2018)