A RADIO FEATURE ON THE LIFE OF STRUGGLE ACTIVIST SIVANANDAN SIVA NAIDOO OF TONGAAT, NORTH OF DURBAN, IN SOUTH AFRICA

RADIO FEATURE PRODUCED IN 2009 BY SUBRY GOVENDER

(SIVA NAIDOO SEEN IN THE BACK ALONG WITH OTHER ACTIVISTS PROMOTING THE NEW ACTIVE CITIZENS MOVEMENT) One of the activists who became involved in the struggles since 1976 against white minority rule and domination is Sivanandan Siva Naidoo of Tongaat, north of Durban, in South Africa. A descendant of indentured sugar cane labourers, Siva Naidoo has been involved in the former Natal Indian Congress, United Democratic Front, and community and civic organisations. After the release of Nelson Mandela in 1990 and unbanning of the ANC and other organisations, Siva Naidoo became involved with the ANC. In 2009, fifteen years after the advent of our new non-racial democracy, I had the opportunity of interviewing Siva Naidoo at his Tongaat home about his life and efforts at that time to establish a non-racial forum to work with the ruling ANC. Today, 22 years into our new democracy, Siva Naidoo is now involved with the Active Citizens Movement.