Former South African president, Thanbo Mbeki has died.
According to family sources, the 74 year old politician, who took over power after the late President Nelson Mandela, passed on on Tuesday morning after a brief illness
Mbeki’s family said the former president had complained about his heart at dawn before being rushed to the hospital.
“We are in shock. He was full of life last night, but this dawn all that he could say was his heart and we rushed him to the hospital but couldn’t make it,” a close family member said.
ANC’s chieftain, Khusela Sangoni, said:”The whole ANC are mourning. He was full of life days ago. He even talked to us about the LGE before we went to the polls. We are in total shock.”
The late Thabo Mbeki had served as President of South Africa for nine years as the second post-apartheid leader, taking over the legend, the late Nelson Mandela, the first post-apartheid black President.
