Former labour minister Membathisi Mdladlana has died

Former labour minister Membathisi Mdladlana died on Friday morning. He was 72. 

ANC spokesperson Mahlengi Bhengu-Motsiri said Mdladlana had been labour minister, founding president of teachers’ union Sadtu, a former South African ambassador to Canada and high commissioner to Burundi. 

“All these responsibilities bestowed on him are testament to the calibre of this great son of South Africa as well as our veteran in the ANC. We are saddened and our hearts go to the family,” Bhengu-Motsiri told SABC news. 

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