This resource is hosted by the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory,
but was compiled and authored by Padraig O’Malley. It is the
product of almost two decades of research and includes analyses,
chronologies, historical documents, and interviews from the
apartheid and post-apartheid eras. 26 Oct 2003: Naidoo, Phyllis
POM Phyllis, just for background maybe you could tell me a bit
about yourself. PN What for? POM Because I'm interested. PN Well
what do I say? I'm 75 years old. POM 75 OK. You were born in
you're from? PN I was born in 1928. POM Thank you. I can
subtract. POM Well I'm making progress here. You grew up and
were born in Durban? PN No, in Estcourt which is in the
midlands. My father was a teacher, my mother was a housewife. My
father and mother were indentured labour POM Your father was? PN
A teacher. POM And had your family come here as? PN His parents.
POM His parents had been indentured. PN Yes. OK, went to school.
POM Was he active in any way in the Congress movement? PN
Nothing political, no politic