FORMER foreign affairs minister and liberation struggle veteran Alfred Nzo died on Thursday afternoon. Nzo, 75, died at the Olivedale Clinic in Randburg where he was admitted after suffering a stroke in December 1999. Nzo was one of the longest serving Secretary General’s of the ANC, having held office from 1969 to 1991. Nzo has a long and distinguished career as a leader in the liberation struggle, he was behind the 1957 Alexandra bus boycott and was a key figure in the ANC delegation that was participated in talks with the apartheid government in the negotiations leading up to the 1994 elections. An ANC statement issued by Smuts Ngonyama says: “The ANC dips its revolutionary banner in honour of this dauntless and tireless fighter for the liberation of his country and its oppressed people.”