ANC National Executive Committee member Barbara Masekela says the late former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom Lindiwe Mabuza served South Africa and its people with distinction in various capacities during both the struggle for liberation. Masekela was speaking at Mabuza’s funeral service in Soweto, Johannesburg.
President Cyril Ramaphosa accorded Mabuza a special provincial funeral.
Mabuza held a number of diplomatic positions in various countries.
Masekela, who is also a former ambassador to France, says Mabuza will be remembered for her humility.
“I chatted with her about my abandoned literally studies at the University of Zambia and we talked for hours about literature, especially Nigerian writers like Chinua Achebe, Wole Sonyinka, Cyprian Ekwensi and many others and I was a amazed at her incisive and precise scholarship. It was not long before Lindiwe decided that I had to be taken in to complete my degree at Ohio where she was teaching.”
Mbeki pays tribute to Mabuza
ANC president Thabo Mbeki described Mabuza as a person who had an outstanding capacity to organise people in the party. Mbeki says Mabuza was also committed to feminism.
“At some point, she edited a magazine of the ANC women’s section, the ANC section in exile, the Voice of Women and added quality and content to that very important journal, the Voice of Women. Wherever she served, whether in Sweden and Scandinavia, the US or Germany, Malaysia and everywhere else, always managed to organise people.”
Former President Thabo Mbeki pays tribute:
