President Cyril Ramaphosa paid a moving tribute on Saturday to the late deputy minister in the presidency Hlengiwe Mkhize, saying she was a “fine public servant who served her country with diligence”.
“In June this year, she was again admitted into hospital after a collapsed lung. However, a day or two after being discharged, she was once again on the streets of Soweto cleaning up after the unrest.
“Goodbye ma. I will miss our conversations, our travels around the world, our shopping sprees and everything in between. We were so close, and at some point I was called your chief of staff.” In her tribute, read by Nomvula Mokonyane, Mbeki said, “She was an elegant and orderly comrade yet able to go off script, meaning that she had the rare quality to be able to connect immediately with whoever she was talking to. She was tough but warm, loyal but ever questioning, serious-minded, passionate but measured in tone.”
“Every day brings news of another friend, another acquaintance, another colleague stepping into eternity prematurely, so we are living in perpetual anxiety.”
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