‘OPPORTUNITIES MUST BE CREATED FOR ALL CHILDREN’
A second-generation descendant of a pioneer indentured family in Ottawa, north of Durban, who dedicated his life to education, culture and spirituality, recently turned 99.
Harripersadh Badri Maharaj, who was born in what is now Kissoon Road in the former sugar cane village on February 2, 1925, now lives in his family home on Essendene Road in Overport, Durban. I had the opportunity to talk to Maharaj about his life with the assistance of one of his son’s, Naresh, recently.
Although he turned 99, Maharaj recalled, without any problems, his early life, primary and high schools, higher education, his work as a teacher in several parts of the then Natal province, his marriage, his move to Durban while in his 20s, his
