ANC Statement, 24 February 2015 Return of the Remains of Moses Kotane and J B Marks to South Africa The African National Congress is thrilled with the decision of the South African government to repatriate the remains of the two stalwarts of our revolution Comrade Moses Kotane and Comrade J B Marks who both died and were buried in Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow in 1978 and 1972 respectively. Both these stalwarts deserve a posthumous hero's welcome to the land of their birth which has, owing to their sacrifice and lifelong commitment, achieved liberation and is still forging forward to being the society they both gave up their lives to be. Both these stalwarts, who were midwives of our tripartite alliance, led all three components of the revolutionary alliance, the ANC, SACP, and SACTU which was a forerunner of COSATU. Comrade Kotane who was the General Secretary of the SACP and JB Marks the National Chairperson of SACP were the champions of the working class struggles and both served in various leadership capacities as well as Treasurer General of the ANC at different times thus gave practical meaning of leading a complex but well defined struggles that knitted the critical strands of our struggle. It is fitting that both will be laid at sites that will be designated Hero's Acre through official reburial ceremonies in the North West Province both in Pella and Ventersdorp. The African National Congress is represented by its Deputy Secretary General, Comrade Jessie Duarte as part of the team that will accompany the return of the remains of our heroes. We call on our people to come out in numbers as they arrive on the 2nd March 2015 at Waterkloof Airbase in Pretoria. Issued by: Zizi Kodwa National Spokesperson African National Congress Enquiries: Keith Khoza, 082 823 9672 Khusela Sangoni, 072 854 5707 -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
