Mooroogiah Dhanapathy Naidoo (1919 – 1 June 1995) was a South African Indian political activist and lawyer.
Naidoo was born in 1919 in Durban to a Hindu family descended from indentured Indian laborers.
[1] The president of the students' union at his university, he became politically active in leftist and Indian organisations; he was particularly active in the Non-European United Front, the South African Communist Party, and the Natal Indian Congress.
[1] Upon his arrival on Robben Island, he was immediately co-opted onto the African National Congress High Command – the political prisoners' informal leadership organ, led by Nelson Mandela – because of his seniority in the Congress movement.
[6] He had custody over their two sons, Sadhan and Sha, who predeceased him; they also had a daughter together, named Sukthie.