Thebe Mabanga
Former defence minister and Congress of the People (Cope) founder Mosiua “Terror” Lekota was laid to rest on Saturday and celebrated as a principled, extraordinary patriot who lived a life of service and sacrifice, a constitutionalist who believed that freedom had to be defended even after it has been won and was willing to reach across divides to bring South Africans of different persuasions together first to defeat the unjust system of apartheid and then to help build a democratic South Africa, Lekota’s official funeral was held on Saturday in Bloemfontein, in the Free State.
The funeral was attended by former Presidents Thabo Mbeki, in whose cabinet Lekota served between 1999 and 2008 when he resigned to protest Mbeki’s recall, and Kgalema Motlanthe, who succeeded Mbeki, National Assembly speaker Thoko Didiza, and National Council of Provinces Chairperson Refilwe Mtsweni Tsipane, who occupies a role Lekota held between
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