FEATURE - Billy Nair, who died on October 23, 2008, at the age of 79, will be remembered as a firebrand political activist who was not cowed by 20 years imprisonment on Robben Island or the continued harassment, intimidation, detention and torture he endured at the hands of the former apartheid regime and its notorious security branch members and agents.
Only a year after being released from Robben Island in February 1984, Nair, who had re-integrated himself into the liberation struggle by joining the United Democratic Front, addressed a packed protest meeting at the former University of Durban-Westville in August 1985.
He was given a massive ovation and thunderous applause when he warned the former Pretoria regime and its backers that their days were numbered. This is what he told the students and members of the public:
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