Morero jokes about no-confidence motions at Mosiuoa Lekota memorial

ANC Johannesburg mayorDada Morerohas jokingly asked United Democratic Movement (UDM) leaderBantu Holomisato instruct his party’s councillor in the City of Johannesburg to stop writing motions of no confidence against him. “You have your person who is bothering me in council. He writes motions of no confidence non-stop.

I’m asking you to talk to him to leave me to finish my term. I only have five months,” Morero pleaded with Holomisa. Morero made the remarks while speaking at the memorial service of Congress of the People (Cope) leaderMosiuoa Lekota, whodied last week.

The memorial service was at Regina Mundi Church in Soweto. Lekota will be buried in Bloemfontein in the Free State on Saturday. Speaking at the memorial, Morero said mourners were not merely gathered to mourn a man but to honour a life that carried the weight of a nation’s struggle and the promise of its freedom.

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He said Lekota had belonged to a generation of South Africans who blatantly refused to accept that injustice was permanent. “When our beautiful country was trapped under the cruel machinery of apartheid, he stood among those who declared that freedom would come, no matter the cost. “A gallant son of Kroonstad in the Free State, a part of our country previously infested with the scourge of racism and white supremacy, the journey of his life became inseparable from the story of South Africa itself.” Morero said that as a young man, Lekota had found his political roots in the student movements of the 1970s, during which courage was often punished with exile, imprisonment or death.

For him, it had meant prison. Lekota had spent years on Robben Island, that harsh school of revolution where many of their leaders learnt the art of patience, resilience and discipline, Morero said. “Jailed, yet jail could not imprison his convictions.

When he emerged from that incarceration, he stepped forward into the storm of struggle. A leader within the UDF, he helped mobilise communities across our country, giving voice to the voiceless and courage to the fearful. “After the dawn of democracy, hedid not claim rest.Instead, he accepted the difficult task of being part of a collective committed to building a new South Africa.

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