ABOUT PRITHIRAJ RAMKISUN DULLAY

● Prithiraj Ramkisun Dullay was born in Port Shepstone.

● He qualified as a teacher.

● Dullay’s grandparents were imprisoned during the 1913 strike of Indian indentured workers on the sugar plantations.

● His father was active in the Natal Indian Congress.

● As a student at the Springfield College of Education, Dullay served in the SRC.

● He was arrested for the first time in 1968.

● Dullay was active in the Black Community Programmes and the Student Christian Movement.

● He cut his political teeth in the Black Consciousness Movement and was a confidante of Steve Biko.

● Dullay’s political work associated with the 1976 Soweto Uprising that spread to all parts of the country, saw him face further Security Branch harassment and arrest.

● He and his wife, Mala, subsequently fled into exile in 1978 and joined the ANC.

● They worked in various places, including at the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College in Tanzania.

● They were granted political asylum in Denmark where they continued the work of the ANC in Scandinavia.

● After the unbanning of the ANC, Dullay returned to South Africa. He continued his activism and worked at the Durban University of Technology (DUT), among other places.

● He spearheaded the campaign to have one of DUT’s campuses named in honour of Biko.

● Dullay penned an autobiography, Salt Water Runs in My Veins. |