31 May 2002
The South African Communist Party (SACP) dips its revolutionary banner in memory of the late Comrade Muzuvukile Curnick Ndlovu. This great hero of our struggle for national liberation and working class emancipation, died earlier this week aged 70, and will be buried on Sunday in KwaZulu Natal.
The SACP sends its condolences and sympathies to his family, friends and comrades.
Throughout his long life, Comrade Curnick has been a shining example of service and commitment to the oppressed and exploited. He joined the ANC in 1952 and Umkhonto weSizwe in 1961. Comrade Curnick also contributed immensely to the building of the trade union movement as an organiser of railway workers under the South African Railways and Harbours' Union. He was also active in the South African Congress of Trade Unions.
From 1964, he served close to two decades of imprisonment in Robben Island. On his release in 1984 he threw himself back into the struggle, becoming National Chairperson of the United Democratic Front and a trade union educator.
The SACP will honour his memory by continuing with the struggle for building a better South Africa and the struggle for socialism.
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South African Communist Party
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