Strini Moodley
Encyclopedia
Strinivasa Rajoo "Strini" Moodley (22 December 1945 – 27 April 2006) was a founding member of the Black Consciousness Movement
in South Africa
. In 1976, he was convicted of terrorism in a trial involving members of the South African Students' Organisation
and the Black People's Convention
, and imprisoned on Robben Island
.
He became deputy news editor at the Natal Witness
.
Black Consciousness Movement
The Black Consciousness Movement was a grassroots anti-Apartheid activist movement that emerged in South Africa in the mid-1960s out of the political vacuum created by the jailing and banning of the African National Congress and Pan Africanist Congress leadership after the Sharpeville Massacre in...
in South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
. In 1976, he was convicted of terrorism in a trial involving members of the South African Students' Organisation
South African Students' Organisation
The South African Students' Organisation was a body of South African students who resisted apartheid through political action. The organization was formed in 1968, spearheaded by Steve Biko, and played a major role in the Black Consciousness Movement....
and the Black People's Convention
Black People's Convention
The Black People's Convention was founded at the end of 1972 as the Nationalist Liberatory Flagship of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa.The BCM was a product of three historicultural and ideological imperatives:...
, and imprisoned on Robben Island
Robben Island
Robben Island is an island in Table Bay, 6.9 km west of the coast of Bloubergstrand, Cape Town, South Africa. The name is Dutch for "seal island". Robben Island is roughly oval in shape, 3.3 km long north-south, and 1.9 km wide, with an area of 5.07 km². It is flat and only a...
.
He became deputy news editor at the Natal Witness
The Witness (South African newspaper)
The Witness is a daily newspaper published in Pietermaritzburg. It mainly serves readers in Pietermaritzburg and the inland areas of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is the oldest continuously-published newspaper in South Africa, having first been published on 27 February 1846. Until 2000,...
.
External links
- Strinivasa Rajoo (Strini) Moodley. Contemporary Africa Database: People. Accessed 2007-12-03.
- South African History Online
- "Former Robben Island prisoner Strini Moodley dies" SABC News, 27 April 2006. Retrieved 29 April 2006
- "Tribute: Strini Moodley`s Legacy" Economic and Political WeeklyEconomic and Political WeeklyThe Economic and Political Weekly is a left-leaning Indian magazine published from Mumbai by the Sameeksha Trust, a charitable trust. The magazine was first published in 1949 as the Economic Weekly and since 1966 was re-christened the Economic and Political Weekly. It was edited by Krishna Raj...
, 3 June 2006. Retrieved 5 March 2009.