Deputy Chair, I hereby move without notice:
That the Council -
1) notes with a deep sense of loss the passing away of ANC struggle veteran and a former Chief Whip of the Council, Comrade Henry Makgothi, who died after a stroke in Johannesburg at the age of 82 last week;
2) further notes that -
a) Comrade Henry Makgothi was a humble, selfless and gallant fighter for the freedom of the oppressed masses of our people and a champion of the poor who served the ANC with the utmost dedication in the fight against oppression in South Africa;
b) he joined the ANC's Youth League in 1944 and was arrested and sentenced to 10 years on Robben Island in the early 1960s for trying to leave South Africa without a passport and, on his release in the 1970s, he was restricted to Mabopane, outside Pretoria, from where he later escaped to Swaziland and joined the staff of the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College at Mazimbu, in Tanzania;
[Interjections.]