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Paul David, the brother of Phyllis Naidoo, listens to tributes being read out to his sister at her memorial service in Durban yesterday. Naidoo died last week.\tPicture: Sandile Makhoba<\/p>\n
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Phyllis Naidoo\u2019s brother, Paul David, smiled and sang along to a rendition of Louis Armstrong\u2019s What a Wonderful World<\/em> at a memorial service held for the anti-apartheid activist yesterday. <\/p>\n Green, gold and black, the ANC colours, adorned the Durban City Hall, where hundreds of mourners gathered for the event. <\/p>\n The 85-year-old activist died of heart failure at the Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital on Thursday last week. <\/p>\n The mayor of eThekwini, James Nxumalo, KwaZulu-Natal\u2019s MEC for Health, Sibongiseni Dhlomo, and eThekwini Speaker Logie Naidoo were among the dignitaries who attended. <\/p>\n \u201cWe are not here today to mourn her death, but to celebrate her life,\u201d fellow Struggle stalwart Swami Gounden said, while delivering a tribute to Naidoo. <\/p>\n Gounden called her a \u201ccommitted wife, mother, activist and freedom fighter\u201d. <\/p>\n He said Naidoo \u201cthrew herself, body and soul\u201d, into the anti-apartheid movement. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n Tracy Robertson, the manager of the restaurant Badgers in Glenwood, where Naidoo was a regular, shared messages from staff. <\/p>\n \u201cPhyllis, you have left a huge void,\u201d said one staff member. \u201cI still wait at the gate at 8am hoping you will walk up the stairs.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/p>\n Naidoo\u2019s sons, Sadhan and Sha, are both dead. <\/p>\n Her daughter, Sukhti, was unable to attend yesterday\u2019s event. <\/p>\n Naidoo was cremated in a private ceremony. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" INLSA Paul David, the brother of Phyllis Naidoo, listens to tributes being read out to his sister at her memorial service in Durban yesterday. Naidoo died last week. Picture: Sandile Makhoba Bernadette Wolhuter Phyllis Naidoo\u2019s brother, Paul David, smiled and sang along to a rendition of Louis Armstrong\u2019s What a Wonderful World at a memorial […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[8275,953,2143],"class_list":{"0":"post-18227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-durban","8":"tag-newspaper","9":"tag-the-mercury","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}