Kanthan pillay biography sample
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Kanthan was born in 1961 in Durban, South Africa, where he finished primary school.
Kanthan pillay biography sample
He completed high school in Bangalore, India, returning to South Africa to write his matric in 1979 in order to complete the Afrikaans requirement for university admission. He enrolled at the University of Durban-Westville in 1980 for a B.Sc.
but was expelled along with hundreds of others during the 1980 boycotts.
He began work as a freelance writer for Post Natal and soon became a regular on the paper, covering sport, politics, and entertainment. A second attempt to enter university in 1983 was cut short by a car accident, and he returned to Natal Newspapers as Political Reporter on Post, while holding down a regular Saturday shift on the Sunday Tribune as branch correspondent (supplying the then newly created Sunday Star), and as copy taster, rewrite sub, and working the news desk.
During this time, he also contributed regularly to SASPU National and SASPU Focus, Work in Progress,Ukusa,