JUDGE NAVANETHAN PILLAY – FORMER UN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSIONER - RADIO DOCUMENTARY ABOUT HER EARLY LIFE

(JUDGE NAVANETHAN PILLAY WITH TAMIL PEOPLE FROM SRI LANKA DURING A CONFERENCE IN DURBAN IN 2015 ON THE PLIGHT OF SRI LANKAN TAMILS AFTER THE GENOCIDE A FEW YEARS EARLIER) Judge Navanethan Pillay, who was appointed the United Nations Human Rights High Commissioner in July 2008, came from very humble beginnings in South Africa. She was born in the historical village of Clairwood in Durban in 1941 to working class parents. Her ancestors arrived in the former Natal Colony under British rule as indentured sugar cane labourers from a little village near the city of Madurai in the South Indian state Tamil Nadu. Subry Govender interviewed Judge Pillay in Durban after her UN appointment and compiled this radio documentary about her early life, schooling, university education and POLITICAL awakening South Africa.