Madam Deputy Speaker, I move without notice:
That the House -
(1) notes with profound sadness the passing away of Brian Bunting on Wednesday, 18 June 2008;
(2) further notes the immense contribution Bunting made to the all- round effort to build a nonracial, nonsexist, democratic, united and prosperous South Africa;
(3) recalls that in 1952 Bunting was elected to the House of Assembly as Natives' Representative for the Cape Western District, he was expelled from the House because of his membership of the Communist Party, banned in 1952, detained in 1960, placed under house arrest in 1963, shortly after which he went into exile;
(4) further recalls that following his return from exile in the early 1990s, Bunting served in our country's first democratic Parliament from 1994 to 1999 and that he was also a robust journalist and edited various publications, including The Guardian, Advance, Clarion, People's World and New Age and authored a number of publications, including The Rise of the South African Reich and Moses Kotane, South African Revolutionary;
(5) acknowledges that Bunting was an outstanding freedom fighter, a lucid thinker, a great South African patriot and an internationalist who embodied the best nonracial and democratic traditions;
(6) believes that Bunting discharged his responsibilities with dedication, discipline, diligence and humility and that the life of this great leader epitomises heroism and commitment to the cause of justice, peace and development; and
(7) conveys its condolences to the Bunting family, the African National Congress and the South African Communist Party.
Agreed to.