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KZN Transport officials in plane crashSATHISH JAGGERNATH: TRIBUTE BY MARLAN PADAYACHEE, FRIEND, WRITER AND FELLOWRESEARCHER. It is with great sadness and grief that we received the news of the ...
Political Economy - Bringing Research Power to Democratization of ...... Author: Marlan Padayachee. ... Marlan Padayachee is a political reporter and correspondentfor the Post Newspaper and the Independent Newspapers, South Africa. ...
Hassan HowaPrepared by Marlan Padayachee The new dictionary of South Africa biography Volume2, Vista University, Pretoria, 1999.
MediaChannel.org - REPORTSIn the wake of the South African Human Rights Commission's scathing spotlightreport on "racism in the media," Marlan Padayachee reports on an international ...
A Story of Movers and Shaik-ers [Sunday Argus, 2003-03-09... Sunday Argus Issued: Date: 2003-03-08 Reporter: Farhana Ismail, Marlan Padayachee... Date, 2003-03-09. Author. Farhana Ismail and Marlan Padayachee ...
disinformation african dislocation: flashpoint in zimbabweThis MediaChannel.org special (May 2000) by Marlan Padayachee offers a parallelcase-study to Zimbabwe: the racism embedded in South Africa's media. ...
Highway Africa '98 Conference... Mr Marlan Padayachee - Political Journalist/Union Negociator, Chair: JournalismCommittee: Independent Newspapers, MWASA & ML Sultan Technikon ...
Tamil Language and Murukan Worship in South AfricaMarlan Padayachee, a South African Indian, writes as follows:. "What they knewof their cultural heritage consisted of crude religious observances (without ...
Post - Fourth Column - The media a pillar of our democracy... Martin Matthews; Sunny Bramdaw; Dennis Pather; Strini Moodley; Ronnie Govender;Nagoor Bissety; Subry Marimuthoo, aka Govender; Marlan Padayachee; ...
World Association for Christian CommunicationWe are also indebted to Marlan Padayachee who assisted in Seminar organisation,publicity, reporting of conference activities, and for raising additional ...
[PDF] StudentsreachoutFile Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTMLby Sparkport Pharmacy, Hewlett. Packard, Imperial Car Rentals,. The Pro Shop,Sharp Electronics,. Dulux and Margi Steel Agencies. - Marlan Padayachee and ...
Sri Lanka News UpdateMarlan Padayachee from THE Post, HAS been quoted AS saying THE LTTE HAS been "pushedinto terrorism by circumstances" and that " Sri Lanka should not ...
Political Economy... Telecoms Market. Padayachee, Marlan Bringing Research Power to Democratizationof the Media in Southern Africa. Shepperson, Anorld ...
[PDF] C ‘96File Format: PDF/Adobe AcrobatPadayachee Marlan, "Mbeki engages in battle of words to secure Indian vote",Sunday independent, may 30,. 1999, page 8. ...
[PDF] Caught in the Act:File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTMLMarlan Padayachee. Correspondent, The Mercury. Among the many investigativestories I have written in my career, two of them stand out ...
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A Letter from Jay Nair on Billy Nair

Hi Marlan

This is Billy's younger Brother Jay, living in Canada. I read the article on Billy and am very touched by your words. I too, together with the rest of the family, have lost a great brother, mentor, guide, educationist and leader. I was impressed by the service afforded him by the State, the Party and all the accolades showered upon him by the various leaders. Yes he was given a great funeral as Black Nationalist Leader of South Africa. I only hope the people , especially the younger generations, do try to emulate what Billy has done for them and keep the struggle going till his dream and that of many before him is fulfilled.
Peace and Solidarity

Jay Nair

Mississauga, Ontario
Canada

The Pulse of Politics in South Africa Blurbs & Standfirsts

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AUTHOR Marlan Padayachee
DATE2002
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pulse of politics
16 April 2002
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issue the pulse of politics politics with marlan padayachee SINCE its spectacular gallop from apartheid autocracy to democracy eight years ago, South Africa, through its high profile political transition, has gained an image as the "darling of demo ... [ Full Story... ]
politics with Marlan
10 April 2002
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politics with marlan padayachee IN what appears to be a political breakthrough concerning Durban's proposed King Shaka International Airport, a high-powered delegation led by KwaZulu Natal's Minister of Economic Development and Tourism, Mr Mike Mabu ... [ Full Story... ]
Issue
2 April 2002
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issue the pulse of politics politics with marlan padayachee SOUTH Africa's multi-party governance comes under the spotlight in the latest issue of Focus, a socio-political barometer published by the Helen Suzman Foundation. From the arms scandal to ... [ Full Story... ]
Shamilla Batohi outgoing Scorpions boss
19 March 2002
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Batohi paves way for women MARLAN PADAYACHEE Political Reporter DASHING legal eagle and outgoing Scorpions boss, Advo-cate Ms Shamilla Batohi (right) believes her appointment as director of public prosecution for KwaZulu Natal is set to pave the wa ... [ Full Story... ]
Papwa award
12 March 2002
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Papwa award wins a smile MARLAN PADAYACHEE EVEN anti-apartheid sports icon Mr Sam Ramsamy smiled when President Thabo Mbeki presented a posthumous silver medal to the family of the late golfing hero Sewsunker "Papwa" Sewgolum at a sports award ce ... [ Full Story... ]
Papwa
7 March 2002
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Glory at last for Papwa MARLAN PADAYACHEE ALMOST 24 years after the death of golfing legend Sewsunker "Papwa" Sewgolum, his son Rajen, a six handicap golfer, celebrated his 39th birthday yesterday with the news that his father has been honoured po ... [ Full Story... ]
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26 February 2002
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issue the pulse of politics politics with marlan padayachee AIDS and politics. Politics and Aids. This dreaded disease is presenting a singular socio-economic challenge to South Africa amid diverse debates and discourses about how to bring the spr ... [ Full Story... ]
pulse of politics
19 February 2002
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issue the pulse of politics politics with marlan padayachee A TWINNED political programme, equally of great national and regional significance, is unfolding this week: From Cape Town Finance Minister Mr Trevor Manuel will face the nation when he de ... [ Full Story... ]
Budget
19 February 2002
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Air of optimism ahead of Budget report: MARLAN PADAYACHEE pictures: chippy devjee TODAY is Budget day in South Africa, and a nation reeling under a tight economic squeeze will look forward to the tale: Cometh the hour, Cometh the man. Among the ra ... [ Full Story... ]
They said it
12 February 2002
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THEY SAID IT ... issue the pulse of politics politics with marlan padayachee "What I know and can say without any equivocation is that during the past year, our country has, in real terms, and within its means, moved further forward towards a soci ... [ Full Story... ]
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12 February 2002
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issue the pulse of politics politics with marlan padayachee THEY are calling it the "bouquet and brickbat" presidential speech in whichvoices in the opposition parties and the giant labour federation say President Thabo Mbeki did not go the extra m ... [ Full Story... ]
Dream of one nation
1 January 2002
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Dream of one nation out of reach SOUTH AFRICA faced a multitude of problems last year as it struggled to realign its fledgling democracy while beset with poverty, unemployment, homelessness, the rampant spread of HIV-AIDS and violence against women ... [ Full Story... ]

Rockers Rocking South Africa

Left of What’s Right
Marlan Padayachee jives to a tongue-and cheek sing-along as political dissidents step aside to give way to a babalaas blast of entertaining escapism
DATELINE DURBAN: WITH South Africa’s political drama swirling ahead of the 2009 election, South Africans are taking the arts, culture and entertainment escapism route.
Fourteen years later, there’s growing turbulence in the world’s youngest democracy in the aftermath of the Polokwane Triangle that has changed the political landscape, but take heart because some of the world’s top pop-rockers are heading are to Rainbow Country this sizzling summer.
With the winter of discontent etched the memories of political, crime, social and economic victims, add a spectre of xenophobic violence, compatriots will be letting their hair down as they drown in the soulful and lilting lyrics of Lionel Ritchie. Rod Stewart and marvel at how the Canadian Master of Unusual Comedy, Michel Lauziere, can play Mozart in uptown New York with his skateboard blades tickling the little green bottles.
Soon the sunset clause will be history as the revelers get into the party mood when the big hitters croon and drool on the concert stages.
Maybe, Richie will pop in at the Mandela (P) Residency to say Hello! Is It Me You’re Looking For? As the warring comrades belt out Say You, Say Me to leverage the head-splitting at Luthuli House, the fractured ruling regime may be also toyi-toyiing All Night Long as the breakaway band work out if they could be Truly called counter-revolutionaries.
While Richie croons about Endless Love, hoping Love Will Find a Way, there will be no love lost between the one-time comrades-in-arms as they jive to Stewart’s soulful solos, and declaring that I Know I’m Losing You. With all the parties getting into the voting rhythm from door to door, some may end up Dancing on the Ceiling while looking down on Every Picture Tells a Story with Richie choreographing a famous struggle drowned in sours.
But this is Afrique Du Suid, and the Irish grave-digger will soon grasp there’s Never a Dull Moment as he rubs the political salt into The First Cut is the Deepest before declaring a Three Time Loser by the time Thabo Mbeki is Sailin’ over the Victoria Falls down the Zambezi to have cold turkey with Old Man River. With Richie and Stewart strutting the stages, our own AK-47 dancing president-elect Jacob Zuma declaring It’s All Over Now with Our Endless Love for president-in-waiting Terror Lekota as he takes his gloves off for the Street Fighting Man. Then at the height of the dissensions in the wake of the China Olympics, Katie Malua strummed home the point to Capetonians that There Are Nine Million Bicycles in Beijing to ride to the polling booths without catching the gravy train en route to the Easter election. Broadway musical theatre star Christine Pedi put her foot into politics and gave us a tonic of cabaret, comedy and jazz during a triumphant tour with the ballots re-electing her as the Diva Dame. Then the one-liners took the Mickey Mouse out of us with slapsticks, turning Poetry Africa into a festival of poetic justice. Carlos Gomez put the shutters on the White House as Jitsvinger and Godessa (Three Times A Lady) rapped about rainbowism, leaving Bantu Mwaura probing why Kenyans had lost the political plot. iBushwomen left their footprints about the shifting sands and fortunes of the vanishing Khoi-San tribes while the ink dried on Thomas Mapfumo’s visa before he reached at Beit Bridge. Poet by any name is still a poet as they waxed lyrical about the literary legacy of Mahmoud Darwish, Palestine’s reluctant statesman who died on Poetry Road with his inspiring revolutionary verses. Until I dish out the 2008 Lemons and Naartjies Awards, laugh it off.

Marlan Padayachee, recipient of the British Council Fellow and US International Visitor’s Award, is an independent freelance journalist and socio-political commentator who runs a media-communications strategy consultancy in South Africa: greengold@telkomsa.net

Published in Juluka magazine USA in November 2008

10th Anniversary Message Chatsworth Community Care Centre for Mayor's Office eThekwini Municipality

Message from Councillor Logie Naidoo, Deputy Mayor of the eThekwini Municipality, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary dinner banquet of the Chatsworth Community Care Centre at the Ocean Conference Centre, Durban, on 28 November 2008.

On behalf of the eThekwini Municipality and the people of the City of Durban, I salute the Chatsworth Community Care Centre on its trailblazing milestone as one of the pioneers of victim empowerment in our city and the new South Africa.

This home-grown community-based organisation, the brainchild of Chatsworth’s stalwart activist, respected community lawyer and chairman of the board of trustees, Siven Samuels, and social-welfare activist and head of secretariat, Marlene Abrahams, and the founding committee members, was launched with a baptism of fire in 1998.

I recall vividly the arrival of a badly needed forum for voiceless victims of domestic violence when the ANC government endorsed the new-wave project with the high-profile presence of the then Safety and Security Minister, Steve Tshwete.

In the spirit of our private-public partnership that we continue to foster in our quest to get companies and communities to support the city government in meeting the delivery rate of the city’s 2020 vision, chiefly to provide a “Better Life for All” by creating jobs, fighting poverty and diseases and providing homes, the Chatsworth Community Care Centre entered the NGO scene at a critical juncture of the nation’s post-apartheid development and transformational phase.

On this tenth anniversary, the Centre richly deserves to celebrate its achievement when all the role-players and stakeholders gather at the Ocean Conference Centre on 28 November 2008 to break bread, pat each other on the back and navigate the two crucial years ahead leading up to 2010.

From humble beginnings in a church hall, the Chatsworth Community Care Centre secured funding from Lotto and other donor agencies and then reached out to people in crisis and provided love and support to the desperate and destitute in impoverished communities.

The city also wishes to salute over 50 volunteers and the 25 people who became functional volunteers. The Centre’s positive leadership resulted in encouraging the Chatsworth SAPS to open a 24 hour service to handle domestic violence, child abuse, wife-battering, drug and alcohol abuse, teenage pregnancy and other social ills.

The Centre’s linkages with Childline provided additional professional support for social workers to attend to sexually- abused children.

This is the hour to honour the Centre for its sterling role during one of Chatsworth’s biggest human tragedies, the death of young people during the Throb nightclub disaster in March 2000. Recognition has to be given for the efforts with the Durban South Doctors’ Guild in the opening of the first “One-Stop Rape Crisis Centre”.

With domestic violence rising daily posing the biggest threat to healthy family lifestyle, right living and communications, the Centre has performed excellently under pressure and amid shrinking resources in its handling thousands of cases on a monthly average of 200-300 incidences.

As the Centre heads for another decade of community upliftment, let me assure one and all that the progressive, people-centred eThekwini Municipality recognises and endorses your valiant efforts in providing relief for all the communities in one of our biggest housing estates and CBDs in the true spirit of Batho Pele (Putting People First).

Have a good one and enjoy your collective achievements and wonderful milestone.

Ends

Researched and written by Marlan Padayachee GreenGold Africa Communications on behalf of the Mayor’s Office, eThekwini Municipality: greengold@telkomsa.net/ 031 266 5599/ 266 1762

Karlen Padayachee SABC Radio on the Obama Presidency

From: Ashok Ramsarup <ramsarupak@sabc.co.za>Date: Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:54 PMSubject: re; obamaTo: Marlan Padayachee <marlan.padayachee@gmail.com>

obama indians... Indian Americans - people of Indian Origin - have played a pivotal role in supporting President-elect Barack Obama's 21-month presidential election. India-born United States Hindu scholar Varun Soni has made history after being appointed Dean of Religious Life at the University of Southern California. His organisation - South Asian for Obama - made great strides in fundraising events, voter registration, outreach and education for the Chicago Senator's blistering campiagn. Soni is married to former Durban physician Shakti Naidoo. Newsbreak's Maya Jagjivan has asked Media and Communications Strategist Karlen Padayachee, who is studying law at the William Mitchel Law School in Minnesota, whether he has been heartened by the South Asian support for Obama in: out: dur:outtro: that was Media and Communications Strategist Karlen Padayachee talking to Maya Jagjivan

Karlen Padayachee On SABC Obama Presidency

Zulu Kingdom a domestic tourism leader

The Kingfisher-Marlan Padayachee
Durban Dateline: Aside from SA's political intrigue and social and economic challenges, I recently revisited beaten track to explore country's domestic tourism leader, the Zulu Kingdom. Tourism is beginning to peak ahead of 2010. Everyone, from the poor vendor selling souvenirs to international tour and hospitality groups, is getting into the act to put their best foot forward to welcome 400,000 football fans from Lima to London. Egoli, Johannesburg's City of Gold and home to 70% of the country's corporate head offices, is the all-year flavor for millions of business visitors and tourists, but KwaZulu Natal is becoming a hugely popular destination "must-see" on continental Africa. Perceptions of a "Cinderella" or "Garden" province and a rural backwater or a "dead-end" Durban are being eclipsed by the skyline of a giant soccer stadium or wide-bodied runway as government and the private sector pour millions into transforming the gateway where the ancient multicultural battlefields and economic success stories of the Zulus, British, Dutch, Germans, Indians or the Portuguese.
Full story in Juluka : www.julukanews.com

Billy Nair - Epitome of an Activist for Change

PEOPLE

BILLY NAIR – Epitome of the Struggle for Democracy
LATE in 2008 South Africa lost one of its pioneering foot-soldiers for democracy, human rights and social justice. MARLAN PADAYACHEE penned this piece on one of South Africa’s remarkable bridge-builders for peace, progress and prosperity.
Billy Nair finally laid down his arms for a “Better Life for All”, aged 79, culminating in a lifelong sacrifice for the nation’s poorest of the poor as political praise singers chronicled the life of one man and his mission to change a skewed landscape.
Nair was given a state funeral befitting a Black Nationalist leader in Durban on 30 October as his widow Elsie Nair heard speaker after speaker pour praise on her husband’s impeccable integrity as one of the leading catalysts for change during South Africa’s liberation struggle.
His casket was draped in the green, gold and black colours of the African National Congress.
Twenty years on Robben Island alongside the icons of the human drama that engulfed apartheid South Africa, notably Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, and his fellow Little Rivonia saboteurs Zulu Moonsamy, Kisten Dorasamy and Curnick Ndlovu, had transformed a consummate campaigner into a gentleman of new resistance politics.
Nair returned to Durban without rancour. There was no bitterness in his voice when I interviewed him after his release from prison in February 1984. His spirit of forgiveness and hope was overwhelming at a time when state repression was at its worst. Not even a taste freedom stopped this tireless worker from achieving the big political prize.
It was this spirit of political maturity, level-headedness and humility that catapulted the former guerilla commander back into the trenches, this time navigating Operation Vula alongside Mac Maharaj, Pravin Gordhan and other ANC Umkhonto weSizwe operatives, a contingency unit in case the apartheid regime reneged on its détente deal with the ANC in the early 1990s.
By 1994, Nair was taking his seat as an ANC MP in Parliament as President Nelson Mandela ushered the new South Africa. He retired a few years ago to his constituency in Tongaat with his faithful wife Elsie who stood by this remarkable socialist-communist trade unionist throughout his political life.
The resister they called Muna, isiSotho for comrade, or the Cat, because he often landed on his feet during his fighting trade union days, was paid the highest honour by the ANC. A flag draped on his coffin was later handed to his widow, a heart-warming reminder of the life and legacy of one man they called a gallant revolutionary, true hero, legend, principled political activist, outstanding, humble and selfless leader, born organizer, underground operator, keen dancer, punter and someone who also enjoyed a good whisky and chuckle. I will always remember his charming smile, inner strength and the honour of being called Boeti, as if it was yesterday when he walked out of prison into the arms of his wife. Hamba Kahle, Chief.
MARLAN PADAYACHEE is a freelance journalist and media communications strategist, who covered the frontline politics of the anti-apartheid movement from the 1970s to the 1990s.