Kumi Naidoo Naidoo spent four days in a Greenlandic prison after scaling an oil platform owned by Cairn Energy, as part of Greenpeace's "Go Beyond Oil" campaign. He was deported to Denmark where he spent a short time in Danish custody before being released in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He has been a vocal critic of the failure of bodies like the World Economic Forum, to go beyond "system recovery", "system protection and maintenance" instead proposing a system re-design. Kumi Naidoo uses the WEF to amplify environmental messages to business leaders and politicians and lobby for green business practices and transformational changes in the
Jay Naidoo African Trust and "Mail & Guardian" newspaper in October 2010. His most recent awards include the Kuzwayo Award from the University of Johannesburg, in November 2012, as well as an Honorary Doctorate Technology Degree in Engineering and the Built Environment from the Durban University of Technology, awarded September 2013. Jay Naidoo is married to Lucie Pagé, an award-winning French-Canadian writer and journalist, and regards his three children as his greatest achievement. Jay Naidoo Jay Naidoo (Jayaseelan Naidoo, born in 1954) is a South African politician and businessman who served as the founding General Secretary of the Congress of South African