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Namibia: Former South African minister, anti-apartheid activist Pravin Gordhan dies – News

Namibia: Former South African minister, anti-apartheid activist Pravin Gordhan dies – News

Africa Links 24 with Daily Maverick
Published on 2024-09-13 05:30:12

Former South African finance minister Pravin Gordhan has died.

He died in the early hours of Friday.

From the time he was 22 years old, Gordhan lived a life in service of South Africa.

As a young man in the early seventies, he became an activist against apartheid, first as a leader of the Natal Indian Congress.

A qualified pharmacist, he was fired by the state’s health authorities for his resistance to apartheid.

With others, he helped build the network of community…

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