The murthi (statue), of the Hindu deity Mother Shakti, was made from solid silver and was brought to South Africa from India in the early 1900s by Murugasa Coopsamy Naicker.
An over-a-century-old silver statue of revered Hindu deity Shakti, brought by an indentured labourer from India, was stolen along with a number of other items from a temple in South Africa, leaving the community heartbroken with the theft of the his