A MEETING was convened on Monday at the Havenside Community Hall where the Jamie Naidoo Memorial Committee was established.
This committee will oversee the official funeral service and memorial service in December and all court actions protests and oversight of the legal proceedings to ensure justice is served for the little girl, who was found dead in her home in Chatsworth last week.
The official funeral service is on Thursday 27 November at the Havenside Community Hall from 11am to 4pm thereafter proceeding to the Mobeni Heights Cemetery for burial.
Jamie’s 55-year-old grandmother Salatchee Basanich and 31-year-old mother Patricia Ishwarlal have been charged for her murder, after Jamie was found allegedly beaten to death in her home. They may face further charges of neglect and ill-treatment of a child under the Children’s Act. Rape charges are to be considered by the state pending the results of a post-mortem. The magistrate ruled the women be held at Westville Prison till their next court appearance on 4 December for a formal bail application.
Members of the community protested outside the Chatsworth Magistrate’s Court on Monday calling for bail to be denied to the women.
Residents said they had suspected the child had been abused and felt the mother and grandmother were both unfit to take care of her and the other children living in their home.
Berea Mail reported on the mother in June 2011, after she tried to sell Jamie outside Joe Cools on the beachfront to buy drugs.
At the time, Capt Rita Naidoo said the mother was addicted to ‘sugars’ and crack cocaine and had appeared in court where she was declared an unfit mother. She was reported as saying Jamie should be put up for adoption as she deserved a loving home. Her mother already had three other children to care for at the time the matter was reported.
