Hon Deputy Chairperson, 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 ...