PRETORIA, August (ANA) - South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday expressed his condolences to the Sobukwe family in a statement on the passing of Zondeni Veronica Sobukwe,91, the widow of Pan Africanist Congress founding president Robert Sobukwe.
“The loss – in Women’s Month - of Mama Sobukwe is a sad loss to the Sobukwe family, Foundation and our nation at large. We have lost a heroine of resistance and a fighter for the freedom of all South Africans, who continued her activism into our democratic dispensation. We will always remember and honour her extraordinary contribution,” said Ramaphosa in a statement issued by the Presidency.
"President Ramaphosa’s thoughts are with the Sobukwe family, the Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe Foundation and the leadership and membership of the Pan Africanist Congress."
Her husband, whom she married in 1954, died 40 years ago.
In April, as an extension of Freedom Day celebrations, Ramaphosa bestowed the National Order of Luthuli in Silver on Mama Sobukwe, who was affectionately known as “Mother of Azania”.
- African News Agency (ANA
