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Dr. Pillay was born on September 23, 1941, in southern Durban, a coastal city in eastern South Africa. Apartheid was formally codified as government policy seven years later, but Black people had been subject to racial segregation for much longer. The community Dr. Pillay and her six siblings grew up in was designated for people of Indian descent and was constantly under the threat of being declared a white area, which would have meant forced removal.[1]

She said every Christmas her father, who was a bus driver, would drive the family "along the esplanade so we could see the Christmas trees from afar". "There's no way you could stop and walk along that street," she said. "You can't go to the beaches, they were all designated for whites only. You couldn't go to the park or use the swings". Dr. Pillay also recalled a time when she was nine or 10 years old and wrote an essay at school about justice. "I wrote of two similar cases where the white man got off, but they sentenced the black man to life imprisonment," she said. "I don't know where I got that [from] …" nobody discussed [apartheid] in class. "We had no newspapers at home. We had no radio, obviously no television. So it must have been from the very atmosphere of awareness."[2]

Dr. Pillay describe in brief her early days in law. Like her schooling, Dr. Pillay was only allowed to attend non-white sections of university. She said her law classes were held in a "potato warehouse". "I was with students who were all involved in some way or another with protest activities and marches on the streets," she said. "I didn't actually join them, but that's that atmosphere of vibrant awareness of what apartheid is doing to us. "There was one protest outside our university and the police actually shot at the students." In 1965, she graduated from the University of Natal with a Bachelor of Laws, before going on to other study, including at Harvard. Two years after graduating, she opened her own law practice in Natal, becoming the first woman in the province to do so.[3] And if you have any legal issue in Indonesia territory, contact us for business inquiry, feel free in 24 hour, we will be glad to assist you.