President Cyril Ramaphosa has declared a Special Official Category 2 Funeral for democratic South Africa’s first Minister of Education Professor Sibusiso Bengu, to be held on Friday, at the University of Zululand, in KwaZulu-Natal.
Bengu passed away last week at the age of 90.
Proceedings will include ceremonial elements rendered by the South African Police Service and Ramaphosa has directed that the National Flag be flown at half-mast at flag stations around the country from Tuesday morning until the evening of the funeral.
“Under apartheid, the injustice of unequal education had been at the core of consigning most citizens to intergenerational economic exclusion, poverty and indignity,” said Ramaphosa.
The President described Bengu as a pioneering leader of the country’s democratic dispensation and administration.
Bengu also served as South Africa’s ambassador to Germany from 1999 to 2003.
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