LIMUSA mourns the passing away of Minister Edna Molewa
LIMUSA Press Statements
Press Statement
22 September 2018
LIMUSA mourns the passing away of Minister Edna Molewa
The Liberated Metalworkers Union of South Africa has noted with shock the news of the passing away of the Minister of Environmental Affairs, Comrade Edna Molewa.
Minister Edna Molewa was a National Executive Committee member of the African National Congress and National Working Committee member of the ANC Women’s League at the time of her passing. She was a committed cadre to the transformation of our society.
She was a product of the trade union movement. In the 1980s, she played her role in the trade union movement. She was the second Deputy President of CCAWUSA, and later the first Deputy President of SACCAWU. The working class in South Africa is much poorer without her.
She passed on after being hospitalized for some time. Her passing has left the movement and the country poorer than before. She was a true cadre of our movement in her own right.
The death of Minister Edna Molewa comes after COSATU’s 13th National Congress elected Comrade Zingiswa Losi as COSATU’s first female President. What links the Congress to Edna Molewa is that she was the first female premier of the North West Province and she also role through the ranks of the trade union movement. She is counted amongst the true heroines of our democratic dispensation.
LIMUSA sends condolences to the ANC, the tripartite alliance, the ANC Women’s League, SACCAWU, the family of Comrade Edna Molewa and South Africa at large. We equally mourn the passing of this great women and leader of her time.
Issued by LIMUSA.
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