By Newsbreak Producer Taliesha Naidoo. Anti-apartheid activist Ronnie Kasrils has described the late Sunny Girja Singh as a courageous freedom fighter, who devoted his life to justice and a democratic South Africa. Singh died yesterday (Thursday) aged 86. He was a member of the Natal Indian Indian Congress (NIC) in 1956, and was later recruited into Mkhonto weSizwe - the armed wing of the ANC - in the Durban Central Area. In 1964, he was imprisoned on Robben Island, where he spent 10 years behind bars for his role in the struggle against apartheid. Kasrils says Singh was one of his oldest friends, who always put others before himself, and the nation above all...

<p>By Newsbreak Producer Taliesha Naidoo. Anti-apartheid activist Ronnie Kasrils has described the late Sunny Girja Singh as a courageous freedom fighter, who devoted his life to justice and a democratic South Africa. Singh died yesterday (Thursday) aged 86. He was a member of the Natal Indian Indian Congress (NIC) in 1956, and was later recruited into Mkhonto weSizwe - the armed wing of the ANC - in the Durban Central Area. In 1964, he was imprisoned on Robben Island, where he spent 10 years behind bars for his role in the struggle against apartheid. Kasrils says Singh was one of his oldest friends, who always put others before himself, and the nation above all...</p>

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