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LIVE: Funeral Service for Yasmin Jessie Duarte RIPJessieDuarte

@SABCNewsThe funeral service for Yasmin Jessie Duarte on Sunday. Duarte will be buried at Westpark Cemetery, in Johannesburg, in accordance with Muslim rites.declared a Special Official Funeral Category 2Jessie Yasmin Duarte was born on the 19th of September in 1953. As a long time anti-apartheid activist she has served as a special assistant to former President Nelson Mandela and was also a member of the Gauteng provincial government as MEC for Safety and Security in 1994.

Duarte also served as the country’s ambassador to Mozambique. Before she assumed her current post as ANC Deputy Secretary-General in 2012 she was serving as the ANC spokesperson. The ANC and its alliance partners has sent condolences to her family and is expected some of it’s top brass will visit her family on Sunday morning and also attend her funeral.

 

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Like Winnie Mandela, this Jessie Duarte hated white people with a passion… I do not have any sympathy… JessieDuarte eNCA DStv403 RIPJessieDuarte sabcnews TheCMShow SAfmBTH SAfmSunrise

🙏🏽💔MHRSRIPP💔🙏🏽 MAY HER REVOLUTIONARY SOUL REST IN PERFECT PEACE. NOTHING IS IMPORTANT ANYMORE WHEN IT COMES TO A DAY OF COFFINS & CASKETS. MAY HER LEGACY OUTLIVE MANY GENERATIONS TO COME. Salute

What a disorganized funeral. NOT BEFFITTING OF CDE JESSIE AT ALL. If ONLY people can learn to shut up and sit down when attending funerals TO PAY RESPECT. Instead of Attention seeking for cameras and grandstanding. Mxm😡🤮

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