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Moses Mabhida dies in Maputo

Moses Mabhida dies in Maputo

Date
8 Mar 1986
Updated
30 Sep 2019
Moses Mabhida dies in Maputo

Moses Mbeki Mncane (Baba) Mabhida, trade unionist, politician, Umkhonto weSizwe commander and Secretary-General of the SA Communist Party, died of a heart attack in Maputo, Mozambique, and was buried there in a temporary grave on 29 March 1986. In 2006, Mabhida's remains were transferred to South Africa by the South African government for reburial at his home in KwaZulu-Natal. The ceremony at Herry Gwala Stadium on 2 December 2006 was marked by controversy as a section of the mourners disrupted the speech of State President Thabo Mbeki. Click here to read the funeral speech by the African National Congress (ANC) president Oliver Tambo in 1986.

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  1. 01Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995).New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1, Pretoria: HSRC, p. 146; Kalley, J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E.
  2. 02(eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood.

Last updated · 30 Sep 2019

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South African History Online. (2011, March 16). Moses Mabhida dies in Maputo. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012641

South African History Online (2011) 'Moses Mabhida dies in Maputo', South African History Online, 16 March. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012641 (Accessed: 11 August 2026).

South African History Online, Moses Mabhida dies in Maputo [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012641, (accessed 11 August 2026).

"Moses Mabhida dies in Maputo." South African History Online, 16 Mar. 2011, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012641. Accessed 11 Aug. 2026.

South African History Online. "Moses Mabhida dies in Maputo." South African History Online. March 16, 2011. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012641.

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