The SA government submitted Mdwaba's candidature in mid-September last year. But Cabinet withdrew its support just two weeks later under still-unexplained circumstances.
South African businessperson Mthunzi Mdwaba has lost his bid to head up the International Labour Organisation .
Gilbert F Houngbo, from Togo, was elected as the ILO's director-general by the agency's governing body on 25 March 2022, the group said in a statement on its website on Friday.
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