NTULI WAS LOVED AND RESPECTED BY ALL
Local Authorities.
One of those structures was the East Rand People ’ s Organisation. Throughout the 1980s, Ntuli became one of the most wanted, harassed and frequently arrested young political leaders in Katlehong, Thokoza and Vosloorus.
Ntuli was arrested under the state of emergency regulations and repeatedly tortured in police custody in Benoni in July 1986, allegedly for being involved in the burning of a local councillor ’ s house. He spent three years in detention at Modderbee Prison.
Ntuli later joined the underground structures of the ANC armed wing, Umkhonto weSizwe. He led Cosas until it was banned in 1985.
He later became a member of the National Students Coordinating Committee, a local student organisation that had sought to fill the void that was created by the banning of Cosas and the detention of most of its leaders.
At the time, Ntuli was among several youth leaders who spearheaded the formation of the Thokoza Youth Congress and Thokoza Student Congress, which were affiliated to the South African Youth Congress.
Ntuli served in the executive committees of the East Rand Student Congress and the Transvaal Student Congress.
After the unbanning of the ANC and other liberation movements, Ntuli became the chairman of the ANC ’ s Thokoza branch in 2002. Ntuli studied for a BA degree in social science at the University of the Witwatersrand.
He was national spokesman for the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa. Ntuli had an easy and amiable relationship with our colleagues in the media, and his approachable personality made him respected by opposition leaders, who this week mourned his passing with us in the ANC.
Ntuli is survived by his wife Moleboheng, his children, siblings and the entire ANC family.