The event was attended by Sisulu's daughter and current Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Lindiwe Sisulu, FS ANC Chairperson, Sam Mashinini, and ANC secretary General, Ace Magashule, among others.

Mashinini described Sisulu as an organic intellectual who was the servant of the people and a pioneer to the birth of one oldest movement in Africa that produced world Icons such as the late Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela and Oliver Reginald Tambo.

Both Sisulu and Mandela spent years incarcerated at Robben Island Cape Town in the Western Cape during the Apartheid era before he was released in October 1989, after 26 years in prison.

Meanwhile, Magashule, during his speech took a jab at author of Gangster State: Unravelling Ace Magashule's Web of Capture, Pieter-Louis Myburgh, saying he does not under the history of the ruling party’s struggle.

Meanwhile, the Mangaung ANC regional Chairperson, Mxolosi Siyonzana, told supporters and Magashule that he must not be deterred by lies allegedly leveled against him. Louis-Myburgh's book has since drawn much criticism from certain individuals in the ANC political spectrum, with the ANC-youth league in the FS calling it "rubbish" and saying it lacks the intellectual capacity.

FS ANCYL spokesperson, Sello Peterson, previously told OFM News that the book does not belong anywhere in the archives of the party and said they are prepared and more than willing to engage the author on the content of the book that allegedly lacks substance in many respect.  

Earlier the University of the Free State (UFS) made a turn on its initial announcement not a public engagement on the boom at its premises after a risk assessment was done.

On Saturday, Louis-Myburgh told OFM News that after careful consultation with the university an agreement was reached that the planned arrangement at the initial venue will go ahead as planned on the 23 Wednesday 2019.

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