Who is Navi Pillay?

Who is Navi Pillay?

Navanethem (Navi) Pillay was born on 23 September 1941 in Clairwood, Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). She attended the University of Natal (now University of KwaZulu-Natal – UKZN) where she graduated with BA in 1963 and then a LLB degree in 1965.

Who is navnathana Pillay?

NAVANETHEM “NAVI” PILLAY grew up in apartheid-era South Africa. As a person of Indian descent, she experienced the full brunt of racism, poverty, and exclusion. Pillay’s parents struggled to keep their eight children housed and fed.

Who is the father of the famous South African actress Priti Pillay?

Pillay was born in 1941 in a poor neighborhood of Durban, Natal Province, Union of South Africa. She is of Tamil descent and her father was a bus driver. She married Gaby Pillay, a lawyer, in January 1965. She has two daughters.

Who is Rani Pillay and what is her background?

After completing her university degrees, Pillay commenced her legal career by doing her articles in Durban under the guidance of Narainsamy Thumbi Naicker, a banned member of the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) and the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) who was also under house arrest.

What did Priti Pillay do in the 1970s?

In the mid 1970s, Pillay defended detained members of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) such as Saths Cooper and Strini Moodley. In 1982, she obtained a Master of Law and in 1988 a Doctor of Juridical Science from Harvard University in the United States of America (USA).

What was the role of Thoko Pillay in the South African courts?

In 1995, after the end of apartheid, Pillay was appointed an acting judge in the South African High Court, and in the same year was elected by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly to be a judge on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), where she served a total of eight years, the last four (1999-2003) as President.