BY NALEDI BOGACWI

THE North West premier, Supra Mahumapelo in conjunction with The High Commissioner of the Republic of South Africa Mr Mdu Lembede will conduct a memorial lecture in honour of the late stalwart ZK Mathews at Moeding College in Otse, in Botswana on Friday.

Mahumapelo will also be part of the30th anniversary for commemoration of the 1985 Gaborone Massacre that will take place on Saturday. Those who are expected to attend the event, include government ministers from Botswana and South Africa.

Provincial acting spokesperson, Brian Setswambung said the move to honour Professor ZK Mathews and commemorate the Gaborone Massacre emanates from Mahumapelo’s State of the Province Address (SOPA) in March this year, which he directed that various activities and programmes will be initiated to honour cadres who passed away while on their way to and from exile.

“Subsequently, the Liberation Heritage Route Project was launched at Lobatla village in April this year with a view to document the history of the struggle launched through the province, and honour heroes and heroines who used this route to cross into Botswana on their way to other parts of the world as they resisted apartheid,” Setswambung said.

He further said the 1985 Gaborone Massacre took place on June 14 in 1985 when members of the then South African Defence Force (SANDF) crossed into Botswana and attacked South Africans and Batswana in Gaborone and neighbouring villages and twelve people died during the raid.

-TDN

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