Indres naidoo biography of christopher

Indres Naidoo

Born: 26 August

Died: 3 January

Transvaal Indian Congress, Umkhonto we Size, African National Congress, South African Communist Party. Robben Island prisoner, Member of Parliament,

Author: Island In Chains By Prisoner / Ten Years on Robben Island

Although banned and house arrested after his release from Robben Island in , Indres Naidoo immediately began playing an influential role in the development of a pro-Congress radical politics in Johannesburg.

For the young white left, mainly linked to the National Union of South African Students (Nusas) and its wages commissions, he and his family became a centre of political discussion, information and connection between an older Congress-aligned generation and the group of ‘new radicals’.

The Naidoo family had lived for many years in a Rocky Street house in Doornfontein, just East of Johannesburg’s city centre.

Indres’ banning and house arrest orders prohibited him from bei