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The ANC once again dips its banner in mourning, as it was informed of the passing of ANC Veteran, Constitutional expert, Diplomat and Leader, Zola Sydney Themba Skweyiya, after a protracted illness.
Comarade Zola Skweyiya passed away on Wednesday morning just days before his birthday on the 14th of April, when he would have turned 76 years of age.
Skweyiya was born in 1942 in Simonstown, Cape Town.
He did his schooling in Port Elizabeth and Retreat, Cape Town, finally matriculating at Loveday College, Alice in 1960.
An activist since high school and at Fort Hare, he joined the ANC in 1956 and organised until he went into exile in 1963
