Johnathan Paoli
The Pahad family spokesperson, Dr Fazel Randera, has confirmed that anti-Apartheid veteran Aziz Pahad passed away on Wednesday evening at the age of 82.
Pahad is the younger brother of Essop Pahad who passed away recently. Both brothers come from a family that was involved in the Transvaal Indian Congress. And both ended up in exile where they worked for the ANC and were very close to former President Thabo Mbeki.
In his exile days Aziz Pahad was elected to the party’s National Executive Committee in 1985 in Kabwe, Zambia.
He was also a member of the National Peace Executive Committee during the peace negotiations in South Africa, and served on the Transitional Executive Council’s subcommittee on foreign affairs during the post-apartheid transition of 1994.
In post-apartheid elections, Pahad was elected to represent the ANC in the new National Assembly and appointed to the Government of National Unity
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