A dark cloud has descended upon our community and has left us in a tearful and sorrowful state of mind.we are gathered here today in our multitudes,from all corners of our beautiful country to remember and pay our last tribute to our fallen friend.

His soul has departed from his physical world and gone to join the spirit of his forefathers and fallen revolutionary heroes and heroines of our struggle against the barbic and despotic system of apartheid.

We must say to our departed friend: rest easy from the strain of life. Had you lived today, we would be celebrating the the day of our birth, but you are gone. Can we believe that your thought lives on through those you taught and your will to serve the nation in those who act and enriched by what you thought. Now that you are gone,we must pay you eternal tribute. But it is for the living you died for and we must continue ourselves in saying it is for our course you died for and inwardly know for what cause you died for. To you our fallen friend, we will continue our just war against corruption, we will transform and contribute towards the attainment of socialism.

Stop, I ask you to think for a moment

Stop now,stop thinking of other things

Think only of this; of people dying, dying by gun,by the knife,The fist,of violence,of accident,of witches

Think of them,the people who are not free

Who will give their lives to be free

There are special people in our lives who never leaves us, even after they are gone. We do not remember days we remember moments. It is hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember. Goodbye is not forever, goodbye is not the end, it simply means I will miss you until we meet again.

We are truly grateful for the privilege of having shared life with our fallen friend. But he must rest now at the end of his days. He will rest in the hearts and minds of all those who love him. And so with love we shall leave him in peace.