Mr Sivathanam Pillay was born in 1923 in Malvern, Natal. His father, Mr Pathmanathan Veloo Pillay, had come to Durban as a passenger Indian from Kanyakumari (Cape Comorin), India. Veloo Pillay married Kuppama, daughter of Mr Sinappa Pillay, another passenger Indian who had come from Madras by way of Mauritius. Sinappa Pillay had established a trading store in West Street in those early years two centuries back...
As is the case with most good things, Kashnie came into my life by accident....
I launched the eNews Journalism Training Programme in 2003. This was my opening address to the class.
The best possible education doesn't necessarily come out of a classroom. Why not rethink the way we go about teaching our children?
In 1998, I covered the German elections for the Cape Times. This photoblog emerged from that trip.
My tribute to Dr Abu Asvat was published in The Daily Princetonian and since then has appeared in many other places.