‘John Beaver Marks’ Peace Memorial Sculpture, 2016
cement compiste and steel
Ventersdorp, South Africa
600 cm high
Struggle hero John Beaver (JB) Marks worked with immeasurable commitment and dedication to ensure that South Africa belonged to all who lived in it, President Jacob Zuma said at his reburial on Sunday. "Welcome home Comrade JB Marks. Welcome home our leader, commissar, intellectual, soldier, teacher and accomplished revolutionary," Zuma said in a speech prepared for delivery in Ventersdorp, North West. "Your soul may now rest in eternal peace, on home soil, on South African soil." Zuma said that Marks was a distinguished South African who was totally committed and dedicated to freedom, equality, justice and human rights for all. Zuma said Marks noticed when African students and white students were treated differently at the teacher training college he attended and could see that black African students were discriminated against, Zuma said.
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