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The Legacy of a Fearless Activist in South Africa’s Democratic Journey | SA News

Ivan Pillay

Sunny is one of those rare persons who eschew self-interest. He placed others before himself and the nation above all else. I would like to share those parts of his story that I was fortunate enough to know about.

As activists, before we met Sunny, we had tried without much success to connect with the underground ANC. We had met with members of NIC, SACTU, and CPSA from the 1950s and 1960s. Most were then not active. This was the early 1970s. Fear of the Security Branch, fear of arrest and detention, and imprisonment was palpable. I first heard of Sunny from an acquaintance who donated to a quarterly publication we produced as a group in Merebank, “The Sentinel”.

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