Tributes to Mwalimu Julius Nyerere in the South African Parliament

Abstract

On 20 October 1999, a motion was moved in the National Assembly in Cape Town on the death of Dr. Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, former President of Tanzania. The following extracts from that debate are reproduced with the permission of the Speaker, Dr Frene Ginwala, who herself spent many years in Dar es Salaam, and was in fact appointed by Mwalimu as the first editor of the English language newspaper, The Standard, after it was nationalised in 1969. In sending the text of the debate, she remarked on the ‘tributes paid by the opposition parties’ as well as ANC MPs.