Lamola criticises Mashaba’s remarks on Samora Machel
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on TimesLIVE
South African Minister of International Relations Ronald Lamola sharply criticised ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba after his deleted remarks about the commemoration of Samora Machel. Lamola defended Mozambique’s role in the struggle against apartheid after attending the 40th anniversary of the former Mozambican president’s death on Monday, TimesLIVE reports.
South African Minister of International Relations Ronald Lamola criticised ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba on 20 October over his remarks about the commemoration of former Mozambican president Samora Machel. “Your comments are deeply troubling,” Lamola wrote on X, according to TimesLIVE.
Mashaba had responded to a video by Josina Machel, the former president’s daughter, saying he should be honoured in Mozambique and not South Africa. His post has since been deleted. Josina Machel was arguing for the preservation of the Mbuzini memorial, where her father and three other people died in a plane crash in 1986.
Lamola recalled that Samora Machel was returning from a meeting in Lusaka on the liberation of oppressed people in South Africa and elsewhere. He also emphasised that Mozambique and the other frontline states had paid a heavy price in the struggle against apartheid.
On Monday, the minister attended the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of Machel’s death at the Mbuzini memorial in South Africa’s Mpumalanga province.
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