Roy Naidoo was among the children who went to Tolstoy Farm where he received training in simple living and self-sufficiency.
In 1914 after Gandhi finally left South Africa, Roy Naidoo together with the Phoenix boys went to Rabindranath Tagore's Ashram, Shantiniketan where they lived for two years and received some training in arts and crafts as well as Indian culture and language.
He began work with the trade union movement and joined the Communist Party of South Africa CPSA.
There were candlelight processions, night vigils, and in 1963 she marched to the Union Buildings in protest against the formation of the South African Indian Council created by the apartheid government.
[4] She watched all her children (Shanthie, Indres, Murthie, Ramnie and Prema) being imprisoned, detained, tortured and harassed by the apartheid security police but remained steadfast right to the end.
[5] On 25 December 1993 she died, just under two years prior to South Africa's first multiracial elections held under a universal franchise.