Farisani preached 'gospel of humanity' - Ramaphosa
President Cyril Ramaphosa has paid tribute to late anti-apartheid activist Dr Tshenuwani Farisani.
Farisani, who was a former ANC Member of Parliament, died on Thursday at the age of 76.
He was also a renowned theologian who co-founded the Black Evangelical Youth Organisation with Ramaphosa in the early 1970s and was active in the Black Consciousness movement.
Between 2004 and 2009, he was the Speaker of the Limpopo provincial legislature.
President Ramaphosa described Farisani as a Lutheran minister who fought apartheid from the pulpit.
“Dr Farisani has left us as part of a succession of stalwarts who have passed on recently and whose dedication to our freedom and national development demands both our mourning and reflection," the president said on Friday.
“TS Farisani preached the gospel of humanity and liberation in ways that energised our struggle and shook the apartheid regime into targeting him and depriving him of his personal freedom."
In September 2022, the Dr Tshenuwani Farisani Development Foundation was launched in Farisani's honour in Thohoyandou.
He also received an honorary doctorate in theology from the University of Venda.
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