Uganda: South African Freedom Fighters to Be Exhumed
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New Vision (Kampala)
20 August 2008
Posted to the web 21 August 2008
Anne Mugisa
Kampala
The remains of South African freedom fighters buried at Lusaze cemetery in Kampala are to be exhumed and reburied at the Oliver Tambo Leadership Institute in Kaweweta, Nakaseke district.
Defence state minister Ruth Nankabirwa yesterday said the six African National Congress (ANC) fighters and others who were training in Uganda died of natural causes.
Eight other ANC fighters are buried at Kaweweta.
Uganda was one of the African countries where ANC had training camps.
During his visit here recently, ANC President Jacob Zuma said the relatives of the fallen ANC fighters wanted them to be given a decent burial.
Those buried at Kaweweta are, Grag Mashindos, Renete Madorite, Mathi Zulu, Solaa Mantoris, Bernard Gatsiire, Edward Charla, Bobby Matonzela and Thembekile Zulu.
Nankabirwa said the remains of the rest would be relocated to Kaweweta by October 9.
She added that the institute will be commissioned by President Yoweri Museveni and South African president Thabo Mbeki on October 9.
Nankabirwa had escorted the South African defence state minister, George Mluleke, his colleague for works, Ntopile Kganyago and the South African High Commissioner to Uganda, Chiliza Thanduyise to Kaweweta to inspect the school and lay wreaths on the ANC graves.
The institute under construction is funded by both the Ugandan and South African governments.
South Africa is contributing $3m while Uganda is to give $1.5m for the construction.
It is an ideological training school for senior officers of the UPDF, the Police and the Prisons, according to the commandant, Shaban Bantariza.
A total of 13 buildings, water supply, solar and generator power supply system, a hospital, staff houses, an administration block and a hall with a capacity of 600 people is being constructed.
Seven classrooms with a capacity of 50 pupils each will be built for the Oliver Tambo Primary School.
The structures, whose construction started in November last year, are expected to be completed by end of September.
The equipment for the hospital will be donated by the South African Military Health Services.
Bantariza said the school, renamed after former ANC president Tambo, had trained different African revolutionary armies including the ANC's Umkonto we Sizwe, Zulu for Spear of the Nation and Uganda's National Resistance Army.
Tambo died in 1993 at the age of 76.
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Bantariza explained that the school is non-partisan and teaches officers in leadership positions about liberating societies.
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I never believed this one from the days of apartheid,"while in custody he slipped on a bar of soap and died",why should I beleive this one,young men dying of "natural" causes.The liberation movements will have a lot to answer for one day, dont forget,nazis are still being tried today.