GRAAFF-REINET NEWS - A memorial service will be held for the late Zondeni Veronica Sobukwe on Wednesday morning, 22 August, at the Graaff-Reinet Town Hall.
She will be laid to rest on Saturday.
President Cyril Ramaphosa last week declared a Special Official Funeral Category 2 for Sobukwe.
She is being honoured by the SA government for her pivotal role played against the segregation of people in the former Apartheid regime.
Sobukwe, who was a health practitioner will be remembered for when she was in her youth, she participated and led protest marches against racist conditions imposed on trainee black nurses at Victoria hospital in Alice.
Her leadership of this protest march resulted in her later meeting with Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe‚ the then Students’ Representative Council (SRC) president at the University of Fort Hare.
“The Sobukwe family is deeply grateful for the gift of her life and the innumerable lessons she leaves behind‚ and even as we mourn her passing‚ we celebrate her humility and the simplicity with which she approached and viewed life. Indeed‚ a great tree has fallen‚” the family said in a statement.
• The details pertaining to the memorial service, as well as the funeral, will be conveyed by the Advertiser as soon as the information becomes available.
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