President Cyril Ramaphosa paid a moving tribute to the late former ANC president, Dr AB Xuma, during a reburial ceremony in Ngcobo, Eastern Cape. “Dr Alfred Xuma was an exemplary leader in times of both difficulty and stability,” he said.
Ramaphosa was speaking during the reburial of late former ANC president, Dr Alfred Bathini Xuma, in Ngcobo, Eastern Cape, on Sunday morning.
“I was also saddened when we heard the report of the bus accident that resulted in the death of 25 people and injured so many others. It [the accident] talks to infrastructure development that we need to focus on to make sure that we can deliver a better life to the people of our country,” he said. “There is much that we need to do and as we announced in our state of the nation address in the sixth administration that, much as our economy is going through a challenging time, as government we will deploy resources particularly for infrastructure built that will improve the infrastructure layout of rural areas.
“We realised that the dam will require a lot of money to build. We then decided that we should build it in stages. It is possible to build a dam in stages and the work has started to lay the ground so that we can start to build this dam. He said: “The re-interment of Dr Alfred Bathini Xuma is an occasion tinged with sadness, as we remember the great loss that was his passing on the 27th of January 1962. But we are also comforted and our hearts are gladdened, for we have brought our father home.”He accorded him a special official funeral as a mark of honour to him, to the family, and to the men and women of Ngcobo who birthed a fine, distinguished and illustrious son.
“We should follow in his footsteps in the positions we have been entrusted with, in national government, in our provinces and in our municipalities. He took his role seriously and discharged it faithfully. He forged consensus and unity.
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