Speaker, I move the motion printed in the name of the Chief Whip of the Majority Party on the Order Paper as follows:
That the House -
1) notes with deep sadness the death of ANC struggle veteran and former Member of Parliament, Mr Henry Fazzie, who died after a short illness in hospital at Port Alfred in the Eastern Cape at the age of 87;
2) further notes that Mr Fazzie was amongst the first representatives of the ANC in Parliament during the era of former President Nelson Mandela and served for more than 10 years;
3) remembers that he was one of the volunteers of the ANC who spearheaded the formation of the military wing of the ANC, Umkhonto weSizwe, in the 1960s;
4) further remembers that Mr Fazzie was part of the leadership of the Port Elizabeth Black Civic Organisation, Pebco, which organised the consumer boycott in the 1980s, made the western part of the Eastern Cape ungovernable, culminating in the collapse of black local authorities in the mid 1980s and played an important role in the activities of the United Democratic Front and the Release Mandela Campaign;
5) recalls that he also served a number of years in prison during the apartheid years, serving 20 years in prison under the Sabotage Act, which was later on appeal reduced to 12 years;
6) believes that Mr Fazzie played a crucial role in the liberation of South Africa from the tyranny of apartheid to a united nonracial, nonsexist democratic and prosperous South Africa; and
7) conveys its heartfelt condolences to the Fazzie family, his wife, children and grandchildren, the ANC and the alliance.