Mlindazwe Nkula, a founding member of the Pan Africanist Congress, has died at the age of 76, the PAC announced on Thursday.
Nkula, who died on July 8, was also a founder member of the PAC’s armed wing, Poqo, in 1959.
Nkula left South Africa in 1963 to undergo military training in Algeria and China.
He was later appointed as the PAC’s chief representative in East Africa before being posted to Iraq for five years.
Before his retirement, he was the PAC’s chief representative in Lesotho.
After the South Africa’s first non-racial elections in 1994, he worked at the pension division of the Department of Finance in Pretoria, verifying PAC members who were involved in the struggle against apartheid.
Nkula will be buried in the Heroes’ Acre in Ladybrand. — Sapa