The League call on all the citizens of this country, particularly those residing in district – the Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati Region, to treasure the legacy of Mama Ruth and continue the sterling work she has done.
The regional secretary of the ANC Youth League Lekgotla Crespo Menyatso says this region must be proud to have produced a fierce revolutionary like Mama Ruth.
“Although our hearts are heavy upon learning about the death of this gallant fighter, we should look back at her glittering deeds and rejoice,”
“Mama Ruth has left us nothing but a solid foundation on building this country going forward,”
The ANC Youth League vows to lead any struggle that is facing young people and hampering their success.
Ruth Mompati was at the forefront leading campaigns against the then apartheid regime that segregated black South Africans and prevented them from exercising their basic human rights.
Menyatso was among the ANC and Provincial Government leaders who received the remains of Mama Ruth at the Vryburg Light Aircraft Landing Zone yesterday.
He says the struggle today is different “Just at nineteen years old Mama Ruth was a teacher by profession, the qualification she achieved under the apartheid rule. If she could do that under difficult circumstances what will prevent a young person from doing it today. More and more young people are swallowed by social illness and sins of entertainment, something that rob this country off future leaders like Mama Ruth.
“It is the duty of this ANC League to champion the interests of young people and make sure that their dreams are realised while ensuring that they have a ripe and sober political understanding.
Mama Ruth joined the ANC while still in her youth age and she was politically properly prepared to lead. That is why she excelled! ” said Menyatso.
Ruth Mompati was among those women who made August 9th day happen.
She was involved in the Defiance Campaign and went on to be a founding member of the Federation of SA Women. She has fought apartheid in and outside the country and was also at the fore when the ANC ushered us democracy in 1994.
Menyatso has thanked the Mompati family for allowing their daughter to be a servant of the people. “The Mompati family, ANC and South Africa as a whole has lost a towering giant and a mother to countless generations of activists. May her soul rest in everlasting peace knowing that her role in building our country’s future will never be forgotten. As people, we owe it to her and generations before that our vision of a united, democratic, non-racial, non-sexist and prosperous society comes to pass.”
Mama Ruth passes on at the time when the League is preparing to hold a political lecture in her honour.
Menyatso said it would have been good to hold such lecture in her presence but they will proceed with preparations nonetheless.
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