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Spirited MaKotane laid to rest

A CAPTIVATING chapter in political history closed last Sunday when Mama Rebecca Morwa Kotane passed away, just under two weeks shy of her 109th birthday this coming Tuesday.

MaKotane, as the centenarian was affectionately called, was the widow of the late Moses Mauane Kotane, the former long-serving general secretary of the SACP and treasurer-general of the ANC.

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