/ 28 February 1999

MINISTER’S SON KILLED

THE two-year-old son of Public Services Minister Zola Skweyiya has been killed after being run down by a car in the driveway of the family’s Pretoria home. Fikile Skweyiya-Mazibuko, whose mother, Thuthu Mazibuko, is ambassador-designate to Paris, died in hospital on Thursday night after sustaining serious head injuries, The Star newspaper reported on Friday. There were no details on how the accident occurred. Skweyiya, who was attending a conference in Washington on corruption, has flown back to South Africa, the paper said.