The remains of Anti-apartheid stalwart and Jail mate of Late Nelson Mandela who died yesterday has been committed to mother earth today, in the West Park cemetery in Johannesburg, under a tree next to Afrikaner anti-apartheid activist, Christiaan Frederick Beyers Naude.

According to Ceoafrica, Ahmed Kathrada was a simple man.

There was nothing lavish or grand in sight, just a tent filled with people from all walks of life here to show their love for Uncle Kathy, as he was affectionately known, one last time.

While some of the country's top leaders were in attendance, there wasn't the usual special treatment for them that these sorts of events have become known for; instead there was great reverence for his widow and lifelong partner, Barbara Hogan and the family.

The sombre mood was then quickly overtaken by an unmistakable renewed energy to "speak truth to power".

Speaker after speaker, invoking the values of the African National Congress which Mr Kathrada dearly loved, decried what they said was a state of moral decay, the culture of corruption and plundering within the Zuma-led government.

Former President Kgalema Motlanthe, giving the eulogy, reminded those in attendance of a 2016 open letter to President Zuma who was absent at the burial programme, in which Kathrada asked: "Is it not time you consider stepping down?"