Ekurhuleni mayor calls on ANC leaders to keep party intact

Executive mayor and ANC regional chairperson, Mzwandile Masina says he hopes the current leaders will draw on the lessons from Tambo's life. 

Masina says Tambo kept the ANC intact during trying times.

He also hopes the ANC will remain intact, even when President Zuma leaves office.

"We would want President Zuma and the leadership of the ANC to leave the ANC to us at a particular point time intact. What is currently happening in the movement is worrying all of us as the young generation of the ANC. We must raise these issues to say that if we can't respect the sitting leadership of the ANC, who are we going to respect?" asks Masina.

Masina says they want to use occasions like this to call for the ANC to return to its original values which Oliver Tambo stood for.

"To ensure that only those who are designated to speak for the ANC raises issues internally, so that we do not tear the movement apart," says Masina.

President Zuma will deliver the keynote address at the gravesite of Oliver and Adelaide Tambo.