President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered the euology at Jackson Mthembu's funeral on Sunday. Picture: ELMOND JIYANE/GCIS
Ramaphosa announced the official category 1 funeral for Mthembu on Friday and said national flags across the country would be flown at half-mast. Mthembu was buried in his hometown of Emalahleni in Mpumalanga. Delivering the eulogy at the funeral, Ramaphosa described Mthembu, who chaired the national planning commission, as a principled person and a man of great courage.
Mthembu, who had previously served as the ANC’s chief whip in parliament, was meant to testify at the state capture commission in the next few weeks about his time in the position during former president Jacob Zuma’s administration. “The ANC is poorer, the country is poorer and Mpumalanga is poorer,” Mantashe, who was the party’s secretary-general when Mthembu was national spokesperson, said.
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