The ANC marked its 114th anniversary with a wreath-laying ceremony at the gravesite of late anti-apartheid activist Moses Kotane on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Kotane died in Russia in 1978, but his remains were returned to his hometown in the North West in 2015.<\/p>\n
He served as general secretary of the South African Communist Party and treasurer general of the ANC while in exile.<\/p>\n
ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered the keynote address at the former freedom fighter\u2019s resting place in Pella.<\/p>\n
\u201cMoses Kotane, as a leader of our movement, never sought the glamour of politics nor the rewards of personal ambition. Having been born in this village, he left when he was 17 and unfortunately died in exile in a foreign land,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Ramaphosa added that Kotane had longed to see an apartheid-free South Africa.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will forever regret that he never saw a free South Africa, but we know that in spirit, he has seen the South Africa he struggled to achieve. When he was finally laid to rest here after decades, it was not merely the return of a revolutionary; it was the return of a national conscience,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
ANC leads Moses Kotane wreath laying ceremony at the Pella village in the North West. 8 January 2026. Picture: Alpha Ramushwana\/EWN<\/p>\n
ANC leads Moses Kotane wreath laying ceremony at the Pella village in the North West 8 January 2026. Picture: Alpha Ramushwana\/EWN<\/p>\n
ANC leads Moses Kotane wreath laying ceremony at the Pella village in the North West 8 January 2026. Picture: Alpha Ramushwana\/EWN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ANC marked its 114th anniversary with a wreath-laying ceremony at the gravesite of late anti-apartheid activist Moses…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[397,398,403,400,399,401,96,402,406,405,404,131],"class_list":{"0":"post-12183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-ewn","9":"tag-ewn-news","10":"tag-ewn-south-africa","11":"tag-eye-witness-news","12":"tag-eyewitness-news","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-news-today","16":"tag-prime-media-plus","17":"tag-primedia-plus","18":"tag-primedia","19":"tag-south-africa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}