The report says the Former South African President, Thabo Mbeki passed away on Tuesday, 2nd January 2024, during a brief illness, he died at age 74.

According to a family source: “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.

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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.”

Trwnews recalls that the late Thabo Mbeki had served as President of South Africa for nine years as the Second Post-Apartheid Leader, taking over the legend of the Late Nelson Mandela, the First Post-Apartheid Black President.