New Age2.png State funeral for late ANC stalwart Indres Ntombi Nkosi, The New Age, Johannesburg, 8 January 2016 A SPECIAL provincial funeral will be held for struggle stalwart Indres Naidoo in honour of his role in the anti-apartheid struggle. Authorities have ordered that flags at official facilities across Gauteng be flown at half mast when Naidoo is buried on Sunday. Indres in The Star, 8 January 2016, picture and caption.jpg This is after President Jacob Zuma granted the Gauteng government the green light to officially honour the ANC stalwart and former Robben Island prisoner. The funeral service at the Johannesburg City Hall is expected to start at 10am and the cortege will proceed to the Brixton Crematorium at 1pm. Gauteng Premier David Makhura, in consultation with the family made the request to Zuma to grant Naidoo a state funeral in recognition of his contribution to the struggle for liberation in South Africa. Makhura visited Naidoo's family on Wednesday to convey the government's condolences. "Comrade Naidoo belonged to a generation that fought a heroic struggle against oppression and racial discrimination," Makhura said. "Indres never cowed before the brutal apartheid system. It is fitting for a person of his stature to receive an honourable and dignified send-off from a democratic government that is a result of his selfless struggle and sacrifice," he said. The Naidoo family expressed gratitude to the government for the honour bestowed on their loved one. "It is heartening to see that our father is appreciated in this way," family spokesperson Dr Natalya Dinat said. Naidoo who was one of the first Umkhonto we Sizwe operatives who went into exile in the early 1960s. He died at 2 Military Hospital in Cape Town last Sunday. He was 79. Zuma awarded Naidoo the Order of Mendi in 2014. Naidoo served as an ANC MP from 1994 to 1999 and was an ANC MPL in the Gauteng legislature until his death. Former Umkhonto we Sizwe chief of staff Siphiwe Nyanda, ANC veteran Ahmed Kathrada, Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande and Gauteng ANC chairperson Paul Mashatile will attend the funeral. <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] -- -- 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.
