WorldNews Posted March 1, 2015 Posted March 1, 2015 [attach=full]18263[/attach]The remains of two prominent anti-apartheid activists who were among the mentors of Nelson Mandela were flown back home Sunday nearly 40 years after they died in Russia. President Jacob Zuma led an official ceremony to receive the bodies of Moses Kotane and John Beaver Marks, whose bodies were exhumed from Russia's prestigious Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow. Kotane, ex-general secretary of the South African Communist Party and a former executive committee member of the African National Congress (ANC), was one of 156 defendants in the notorious 1956 treason trial. Continue reading... Quote
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