Published date
8 March 1986
References
Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995).New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1, Pretoria: HSRC, p. 146; Kalley, J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E.|(eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood.
Moses Mbeki Mncane (Baba) Mabhida, trade unionist, politician, Umkhonto weSizwe commander and Secretary-General of the SA Communist Party, died of a heart attack in Maputo, Mozambique, and was buried there in a temporary grave on 29 March 1986. In 2006, Mabhida's remains were transferred to South Africa by the South African government for reburial at his home in KwaZulu-Natal. The ceremony at Herry Gwala Stadium on 2 December 2006 was marked by controversy as a section of the mourners disrupted the speech of State President Thabo Mbeki.
Click here to read the funeral speech by the African National Congress (ANC) president Oliver Tambo in 1986.