Pretoria - Struggle stalwart and military veteran of the Luthuli Detachment of Umkhonto we Sizwe, Stabiso Simon Ndaba, has passed on.
Ndaba will be buried on Saturday. The funeral service will be held at St Mungo’s United Church in Bryanston, Johannesburg, from 09h00 -12h00.
The Department of Military Veterans has expressed its shock and sadness at his passing. The department described him as a “man who served the struggle for liberation with distinction”.
Ndaba left the country to join the MK in 1963 to do military training in China, before doing further military training in the then Soviet Union. He returned to Tanzania to join other Luthuli Detachment members such as the late Chris Hani, Hermanus Loots and General Albert Moloi.
In 1967, he was deployed to Lusaka, Zambia, as part of internal operations unit under the Revolutionary Council. In the late 1990s, he became the head of transport of the ANC in Zambia, where he coordinated transportation of various leaders and cadres of the ANC and MK to various missions that were to be carried out at home and abroad.
He returned to the country together with his family following the unbanning of the ANC in South Africa. - SAnews.gov.za
