An incident where President Thabo Mbeki was heckled while speaking at the reburial of former African National Congress (ANC) stalwart Moses Mabhida is still being investigated, the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal said on Monday.
ANC provincial secretary Senzo Mchunu said the party had hoped investigations into the incident would be have been completed by now, but the recent holiday season had frustrated investigators’ attempts to contact people who had to be interviewed.
Asked when he expected the report to be completed, he said: ”I would prefer to be cautious in giving a time, but the report will be completed as soon as possible.”
Earlier on Monday ,there were reports that the outcome of the investigation would be released later the same day.
Hundreds of mourners at the funeral on December 2 at Pietermaritzburg’s Harry Gwala Stadium walked out when Mbeki began speaking, heckling and blowing vuvuzelas.
The ANC set up a task team, which includes members of the tripartite alliance — the ANC, the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the South African Communist Party (SACP) — to investigate the incident.
Earlier this month, ANC deputy president Jacob Zuma chastised the media for labelling those who disrupted Mabhida’s reburial as Zuma supporters. He said they were ANC members who he had ordered to stop heckling Mbeki.
Mabhida, a former secretary general of the SCAP, died while in exile in Maputo in 1986. — Sapa