Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly Lechesa Tsenoli says Parliament will continue drawing from the lessons imparted by the late former Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Aziz Pahad. Pahad was one of the longest serving Deputy Ministers having been appointed in 1994 and serving in the post until 2008.
He died at his Johannesburg home yesterday at the age of 82. As a former Member of Parliament, Pahad was praised for contributing to South Africa’s domestic and international relations. Tsenoli says Parliament will retain the objectives and contributions he made towards its work.
“We feel we have lost part of what we were beginning to call alumni, some of those MPs who, like him, were pioneer MPs but also had capacity they generated over years of the struggle and therefore were able to feed it into our international relations and domestic approaches to difficult issues. We retain the aims and objectives for which he fought and the contributions he made to our parliamentary work in a variety of capacities. He was always a pleasant person to be around; we will miss his sense of humour,” Tsenoli elaborates.
Source: eNCA
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