Mbeki to address Robert Mugabe's memorial service in Durban | IOL News

Durban - The mooted Robert Mugabe memorial service to be addressed by former ANC and state president, Thabo Mbeki, on Tuesday in Durban will mark Mbeki’s first prominent return to KZN in 13 years.

In 2006 his body was returned from Maputo but that historic reburial turned into a nightmare for Mbeki as he was booed by a crowd that was sympathetic to Zuma whom he had fired for alleged corruption in June 2005. In October of that same year, Mbeki was disrupted by a crowd believed to be sympathetic to Zuma while he was launching Mahatma Gandhiâ’s Satyagraha movement together with then Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh.

However, with the Zuma camp unravelling in KZN and out of the power that once enabled him to maintain support through patronage, some of his former supporters have moved on to back current ANC and country President Cyril Ramaphosa.

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