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She died a day after her daughter Thato died.
The cause of death is still unknown, but the ANC s Gauteng legislature chief whip pointed that the deaths could be related to Covid-19.
ANC MP Jacqueline Mofokeng died on Thursday - a day after the death of her daughter Thato.
In a statement, ANC chief whip Pemmy Majodina said she received the news of Mofokeng s death on Thursday.
Mofokeng became an MP in the Sixth Parliament in 2019 and served on the Joint Constitutional Review Committee, the Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence, the Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services and the Portfolio Committee on Police.
ANC MP Tozama Mantashe has died of Covid-19 complications.
She is the sister of Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe.
The ANC has hailed Mantashe as a fiery gender activist.
Yet another lawmaker has succumbed to Covid-19.
ANC MP Tozama Mantashe, the sister of ANC national chairperson Gwede Mantashe, died on Sunday due to Covid-19 complications.
Tozama Mantashe is the 13
th MP to have died of the virus.
In a statement on Monday, ANC chief whip Pemmy Majodina said Mantashe was hospitalised for a few weeks. At the time of her demise, Comrade Tozama Mantashe had served in both the fifth and sixth Parliament and was assigned to serve on the Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry during the sixth Parliament as well as the National Assembly Rules Committee and Joint Rules Committee, she said.
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Yet another lawmaker has succumbed to Covid-19.
ANC MP Tozama Mantashe, the sister of ANC national
chairperson Gwede Mantashe, died on Sunday due to Covid-19 complications.
Tozama Mantashe is the 13th MP to have died of the virus.
In a statement on Monday, ANC chief whip Pemmy Majodina said
Mantashe was hospitalised for a few weeks. At the time of her demise, Comrade Tozama Mantashe had
served in both the fifth and sixth Parliament and was assigned to serve on the
Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry during the sixth Parliament as well
ANC Parliament
ATM leader Vuyolwethu Zungula and DA MP Cameron MacKenzie also joined in.
Acting ANC parliamentary caucus spokesperson, Nomfanelo Kota, said the ANC will remain true to its non-racist and non-sexist principles.
The ANC will remain true to its non-racist, non-sexist principles and not let the noise made by others keep it from governing the country.
This was acting ANC caucus spokesperson Nomfanelo Kota s response to the xenophobia directed on social media to one of the party s new MPs, Xiaomei Havard.
Havard was born in China, and was sworn in as an MP on Wednesday, along with four other new ANC MPs.