THE GOODWILL GIRL, the story of Daya Pillay

183pp.,b/w & colour illus., paperback, Micromega Publications, (Durban), 2025

ISBN: 9781037075711

Biography of Daya Pillay.

"Born in the 1940s, Daya would grow up in a world founded in segregation and discrimination, pre-determining, among many aspects of her life, where she would live, and where she could go to school. But Daya would live her life, for the next eighty years, with dignity and with decorum ... Refusing the iniquity of the blighted, truncated life lived under apartheid, Daya fashioned a vibrant and meaningful life for herself and those around her ... whether in Clairwood, or Cato Manor, or Chatsworth - Daya dedicated her life to forging family and community through her endless love, faith and service ... through her deep faith in action, her enterprising and creative disposition, her words of wisdom, and, above all, her soulful singing in her hallowed mother tongue, Tamil" Professor Betty Govinden, from her prologue

Dr Rajie Tudge lectured at the University of Durban-Westville and was the Director of Strategic Planning when she retired in 1998.