MAKHANDA - Author and broadcaster Eusebius Mckaiser is being remembered in Makhanda.
Family and friends have gathered to bid their final farewells.
His brother Aidan Stevens said he was soft-spoken and good-hearted.
"I remember one time I was in high school, we had an assignment that I had to do, he was still in primary school.
"Then I asked him to write me a letter, it was for this yearly points, Afrikaans, and he wrote it so well, the marks that I received were very good actually, to my surprise, but I didn't tell him otherwise," he said.
The chair of his alma mater's council described Mckaiser as the embodiment of the spirit of Rhodes University.
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Gerald Bloem says Mckaiser was committed to advancing the public good.
"He was an embodiment of the Rhodes University spirit, robust, engaging and will a well cart sense of intersectionality.
"He stood for social justice and equality, his stance against racism was unequivocal and unmistakeable."