English: I had the honour to know Rhodri over many decades. That wasn't very exceptional. I think everyone involved in the Labour Party in Wales knew Rhodri at some time or other. In fact, everyone in Wales seemed to know Rhodri at some time or other. I do remember his personal kindness to me and to my late wife Elaine. But I would like to make a specific tribute on behalf of those thousands of people in Wales who, like Rhodri, gave several decades of their lives to the campaign against apartheid in South Africa, and the international sporting and cultural boycott that eventually contributed to the downfall of the apartheid regime. In Wales, through the Wales Anti-Apartheid Movement, it was one of the most effective campaigns across the world. It engaged, over several decades, generations of activists and knew no party political boundaries, and Rhodri was a founder member of the Wales Anti-Apartheid Movement. He was at the forefront of that movement, and alongside many other major Welsh political figures, such as Neil Kinnock, Lord Jack Brooks, Phil Squire, who was then the leader of Mid Glamorgan council, Jenny Randerson, South Glamorgan council leader Bob Morgan, Dafydd Elis-Thomas, Dafydd Iwan through song, and many others - Dai Francis - Rhodri, alongside Julie, was always there in that campaign. In the 1980s, he was part of a delegation to the National Eisteddfod, which successfully established a cultural boycott, something that would in previous years have been unheard of. He supported the rugby boycott, something that was not easy for an ardent rugby fan. He actively campaigned and supported the calls for the release of Nelson Mandela, and upon his release from prison - Mandela's, that is - he proudly spoke of the special link between Wales and South Africa. This was recognised by Nelson Mandela and by the African National Congress. Rhodri was a participant in the famous Welsh fundraising sponsored walk held each year to raise funds for charities commemorating the Soweto massacre, a walk that, in fact, carries on to this day, and I walk I know he enjoyed - 5 miles from Llantwit Major to the Plough and Harrow pub in Monknash, and then, much more slowly, back again. Alongside so many, Rhodri was a spokesman for all that was so good in Wales when it came to standing up against injustice wherever it occurred, and in the best internationalist traditions of Wales. So, on behalf of all those who were involved in that movement - and I know they would like me to say this - thank you, Rhodri. You were a great campaigner for justice and international solidarity and you played your part in Wales in bringing the evil of apartheid to an end.
Welsh: Cefais y fraint o adnabod Rhodri dros sawl degawd. Nid oedd hynny'n eithriadol iawn. Rwy'n credu bod pawb sy'n ymwneud â'r Blaid Lafur yng Nghymru yn adnabod Rhodri ar ryw adeg neu'i gilydd. Mewn gwirionedd, mae hi'n ymddangos bod pawb yng Nghymru yn adnabod Rhodri ar ryw adeg neu'i gilydd. Rwyf yn cofio am ei garedigrwydd personol tuag ataf i a fy niweddar wraig Elaine. Ond fe hoffwn i dalu teyrnged benodol ar ran y miloedd o bobl hynny yng Nghymru a roddodd, fel Rhodri, sawl degawd o'u bywydau i'r ymgyrch yn erbyn apartheid yn Ne Affrica, ac fe wnaeth y boicot chwaraeon a diwyllianol rhyngwladol gyfrannu yn y pen draw at gwymp y gyfundrefn apartheid. Yng Nghymru, drwy Fudiad Gwrth-Apartheid Cymru, roedd hon yn un o'r ymgyrchoedd mwyaf effeithiol ar draws y byd. Dros sawl degawd, bu cenedlaethau o ymgyrchwyr yn rhan ohoni, ac ni wyddai ddim am ffiniau pleidiau gwleidyddol. Roedd Rhodri yn un o sylfaenwyr Mudiad Gwrth-Apartheid Cymru. Roedd yn flaenllaw yn y mudiad, ac ochr yn ochr â nifer o unigolion blaenllaw eraill yng ngwleidyddiaeth Cymru, fel Neil Kinnock, Arglwydd Jack Brooks, Phil Squire, a oedd bryd hynny yn arweinydd cyngor Morgannwg Ganol, Jenny Randerson, arweinydd Cyngor De Morgannwg, Bob Morgan, Dafydd Elis-Thomas, Dafydd Iwan trwy ei ganeuon, a llawer o bobl eraill - Dai Francis - roedd Rhodri, ochr yn ochr â Julie, bob amser yno yn yr ymgyrch honno. Yn y 1980au, roedd yn rhan o ddirprwyaeth i'r Eisteddfod Genedlaethol a lwyddodd i sefydlu boicot diwylliannol, rhywbeth na fyddai erioed wedi ei ddychmygu mewn blynyddoedd blaenorol. Roedd yn cefnogi'r boicot rygbi, rhywbeth nad oedd yn hawdd i gefnogwr rygbi brwd. Bu'n ymgyrchu'n frwd ac yn cefnogi'r galwadau am ryddhau Nelson Mandela, ac ar adeg ei ryddhau o'r carchar - Mandela, hynny ydy - siaradodd yn falch am y cysylltiad arbennig rhwng Cymru a De Affrica. Cafodd hyn ei gydnabod gan Nelson Mandela a chan Gyngres Genedlaethol Affrica. Cymerodd Rhodri ran yn y daith gerdded noddedig enwog a gynhelir bob blwyddyn yng Nghymru i godi arian ar ran elusennau sy'n coffáu lladdfa Soweto, taith gerdded sydd, mewn gwirionedd, yn parhau hyd heddiw. Un daith rwy'n gwybod iddo ei mwynhau oedd y daith pum milltir o Lanilltud Fawr hyd at dafarn y Plough and Harrow yn yr As Fawr, ac yna, yn llawer arafach, yn ôl eto. Ochr yn ochr â chymaint o bobl, roedd Rhodri yn llefarydd dros bopeth oedd mor dda yng Nghymru pan oedd angen sefyll yn erbyn anghyfiawnder lle bynnag y bo, a thros draddodiadau rhyngwladol gorau Gymru. Felly, ar ran pawb a oedd yn rhan o'r symudiad - ac rwy'n gwybod y byddent yn hoffi i mi ddweud hyn - diolch i ti, Rhodri. Roeddet yn ymgyrchydd gwych dros gyfiawnder ac undod rhyngwladol ac rwyt ti wedi chwarae dy ran yng Nghymru wrth ddod ag anfadwaith apartheid i ben.