Pretoria – Free State Premier Ace Magashule has described former President Nelson Mandela as someone who touched his life in the most profound way.
He said in a statement on Friday that he was deeply saddened by the passing on of the iconic revolutionary.
Mandela passed away at his home in Houghton, Johannesburg on Thursday evening at the age of 95.
“This founding father of the democratic South Africa was just more than a comrade to me. He taught us to be humble and humane in the quest of building a proud South Africa that was to become a significant player in the community of nations.
“He taught us to forgive and cement instruments of lasting peace by engendering a sense of pride and restoring the dignity of Africans within a non-racial global society. We have been guided by his high level of revolutionary morality. This is the legacy that he lives for us,” said Magashule.
On behalf of the people of the Free State, the premier sent his condolence to Madiba’s wife, family, grand and great grandchildren.
Magashule said it was perhaps consoling that “he lived for all of us and leaves behind a capable leadership that will lead this country in the way he would have done, by ensuring that we continue to build a non-racial, non-sexist, free, democratic and prosperous South Africa”.
“We shall continue to strive for the realisation of all the ideals that he lived and eventually died upholding" he added. – SAnews.gov.za
