Lerato Mbhiza
President Cyril Ramaphosa has declared that the late former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Aziz Pahad will be honoured with a Special Official Funeral Category 2 on Saturday.
Pahad passed away on Wednesday, 27 September 2023, at the age of 82.
The longest Foreign Affairs DG in South Africa, Pahad was also a member of the National Peace Executive Committee during the peace negotiations, and served on the Transitional Executive Council’s subcommittee on foreign affairs during the post-apartheid transition of 1994.
After 1994 Pahad was elected to represent the ANC in the new National Assembly and appointed to the Government of National Unity as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs by newly-elected President Nelson Mandela.
Pahad’s influence in the government expanded further under Mbeki, where he played a prominent role in South Africa’s attempt to stop the US-led attack on Iraq in 2003.
He represented the country at
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