By Motswako News Agency
The Azanian People's Organisation (Azapo) has embarked on a desperate drive to raise funds for the burial of Ambrose Shezi, the father of one of the founders of the Black Conscious Movement, Mthuli ka Shezi. Shezi snr (86) was knocked down by a speeding car in Alexandra township, where he had survived on his meagre pension.
He died on the scene.
His daughter, Thandi Shezi, said that after a successful fundraising drive, her father would be buried in Alexandra tomorrow. The service would be held at the Phuthaditjhaba hall from 7am to 9am before leaving for the Waterval cemetery.
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Former minister of Science and Technology Musibudi Mangena, who is also president of Azapo, said Shezi snr's death was very similar to that of his Black Consciousness activist son in 1974.
"The irony of his death is that he died in almost the same manner as his son who was pushed under a moving train 35 years ago," Mangena said.
On June 16, 2007, Azapo unveiled the tombstone of Ka Shezi, a close comrade of Steve Biko, in Tembisa.
The stone is shaped and fashioned as a clenched fist in the red, gold and black colours of the movement. The stone replaced the one which was defaced in the 1970s by the security forces of the Nationalist Party government.
Gomolemo Mokae, one of the prominent adherents of the Black Conscious Movement, said yesterday: "The old man (Shezi snr) gave us, the oppressed people, a true son of the soil. It is sad that old man Shezi was never really given the recognition he deserved by our country. But at least he witnessed the end of apartheid. - Motswako News Agency
- This article was originally published on page 2 of Pretoria News on November 06, 2009
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