KwaZulu-Natal ANC heavyweights share fond memories of former finance minister Pravin Gordhan during apartheid.
President Cyril Ramaphosa comforts Pravin Gordhan ’s widow Vanitha Raju at the funeral service in Durban this week. Picture: DOCTOR NGCOBO Independent Newspapers ANC heavyweights from KwaZulu-Natal said if there could be more people like Pravin Gordan, life would be better for all of us.
KZN’s former premier Sbu Ndebele said they met in 1987 when Ndebele got out of prison. He said Gordhan was not a person who would sit and moan about oppression, but he would say “what can we do about it?” “He said ‘this is God’s sea’, we invaded those whites-only beaches and people gained strength,” said Ndebele.He said the country had lost an activist and a thinker who turned a small issue into a movement.
“There was no malaria in Durban and if you went to the hospital you’d have to indicate your travel history, so we had to treat the comrades in a safe house.
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