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Africa-Press<\/a> – South-Africa<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Cape Town – The chairperson of the National Assembly committee on agriculture, rural development and land reform, Mandla Mandela, has paid tribute to King Goodwill Zwelithini, who died on Friday morning.<\/p>\n

Mandela, the chief of Mvezo and grandson of former president Nelson Mandela, said: \u201cWe are deeply saddened and pained at the untimely passing of His Majesty, when the whole country and the world are under strain due to the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have lost not just a leader, but the monarch of the Zulu kingdom.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the committee sent its condolences to the king\u2019s family and Zulu nation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe join the Zulu nation in mourning the passing of the king,\u201d said Mandela.<\/p>\n

In a statement, President Cyril Ramaphosa said he was deeply saddened by the news of the king\u2019s death, which came \u201cat a time when we had all been hopeful that His Majesty was recovering well in hospital\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis Majesty will be remembered as a much-loved, visionary monarch who made an important contribution to cultural identity, national unity and economic development in KwaZulu-Natal and through this, to the development of our country as a whole,\u201d the president said.<\/p>\n

Tributes for the king also came in from other prominent South Africans and politicians, including UDM leader Bantu Holomisa, IFP leader Velenkosini Hlabisa and DA leader John Steenhuisen.<\/p>\n

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Political Bureau<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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