Koma's cousin Maipelo Senai narrated how she grew up with him. She said he was a humorous person with no hatred from his early days up to the time he went to school and came back to join politics. "If we are to talk about my cousin, we will spend the whole day, because his good deeds are too many to count," she said.
Opposition veteran Klass Motshidisi said Koma was a man of the people who wanted to liberate masses when he first arrived from studies in 1964. "He was a very strategic person who easily outsmarted the Special Branch at a time when they though he was distributing communist doctrine," he said.