Former Transport Minister and anti-apartheid activist Mac Maharaj has described former Minister Pravin Gordhan as a leader who never backed down when fighting for a good cause.
Maharaj spoke at Gordhans Special Official Funeral Category 2, which is currently underway at the Inkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre in Durban.
Gordhan died at a Johannesburg hospital last week at the age of 75 after a battle with cancer.
Maharaj says the corrupt hurled everything at Gordhan.
He says, Without the exposures by the media, without the exposure and the fight back mounted by Pravin and his formidable team at Treasury, his deputy Mcebisi Jonas, Lungisa Fuzile and the SARS team, without them our beloved country could have become a banana republic governed by an autocratic regime adorned with a thick leaf of a hollowed out democracy.
