(1) notes that the African National Congress's Head of International Affairs, Johnstone "Johnny" Mfanafuthi Makhathini, passed away on 3 December 1988, while exiled in Zambia;
(2) further notes that Makhathini's remains were exhumed in Lusaka, Zambia, and repatriated to South Africa, where they were reburied in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday, 27 February 2010;
(3) remembers that Mr Makhathini was born in Durban on 8 February 1932. He was a gifted, bright and talented debater with an aptitude for languages and he attended school at Adams College where he trained as a teacher, after which he went on to teach at Mzinyathi, in the Inanda area;
(4) further remembers that the late Makhathini became politically active when Bantu Education was imposed on African schools and subsequently resigned from the teaching profession, rather than continue to serve under the Bantu Education system and pursued part- time studies at the University of Natal;
(5) recalls that as a result of the brutal suppression of political activity and arrest of political activists by the apartheid regime in the 1960s, in 1962 Johnny joined the first group of volunteers from Natal to be sent out of the country for military training in the then Tanganyika where they met Comrade Nelson Mandela;
(6) further recalls that Mr Makhathini had sterling qualities, which led to his appointment as head of the ANC mission to the United Nations in 1977 and, subsequently, in 1983, as head of the ANC's department of international affairs; and