The death of veteran anti-apartheid activist Yusef Cachalia was a “great personal blow,” President Nelson Mandela said this week.
Cachalia, who had been ill for some time, died on Tuesday at the age of 80.
Mandela said he and Cachalia had been friends since the
ANC veteran Walter Sisulu said he and Cachalia, who had been president of the SA Indian Congress, had worked closely together during the defiance campaign. “We are very much affected by his death,” said Sisulu.