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[FILE IMAGE]: Deputy President David Mabuza facilitating a dialogue with Members of the National House of Traditional and Khoisan leaders, 11 March 2022.
African National Congress National’s Executive Committee member, David Mahlabo, says most ANC comrades who served with the former Deputy President David Mabuza are still reeling in shock over his passing.
Mabuza died at the age of 64 in hospital last Thursday.
Mahlobo has joined the Executive Council of the provincial government to pay homage to the Mabuza family.
Mahlobo says they had hoped his health will fully recover.
“Most of us are still reeling in shock. We never believed that this will arise at the time. All us hoped that Deputy President Mabuza was feeling much much better and it was all for sudden, but we have come to terms now that he played his part. Let’s allow him to rest. There are many memories that we are going to cherish at an individual level, a number of us when the ANC was unbanned,” says Mahlobo.
Meanwhile, Human Settlements minister, Thembi Simelane, has hailed Mabuza as a grounded political leader who had time-keeping skills.
Simelane is amongst the national ANC leaders who paid tribute to Mabuza at his home in Barberton.
She says Mabuza has always been a person who loved people.
“I remember him as man of less words and more work when you are accompanying him either as mayor or whatever. He’d fight with you more about ‘where is water? Why are doing this? Why wasn’t (that) done?’ I remember his time-management skills. Comrade DD was never late in a meeting, whether seven in the morning, whether it is six, and he will allow you to set the time,” added Simelane.
David Mabuza | ANC members pay tribute
