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News and Publicity - Press Statement: Condolences to SASCO COSATU Communications Department - 1999-10-12 |
The Congress South African Trade Unions would like to convey its deep felt condolences to the family of comrade Wanga Sigila and the South African Students’ Congress – the organisation he served to his dying moment. Sigila (SASCO’s Deputy President at the time of this death) passed away in a car accident on his way back from addressing the 8th anniversary celebration of SASCO at the University of the North West – Mafikeng. Comrade Sigila’s death is not only a loss to SASCO and the student movement, but represents a tremendous loss for the democratic movement as a whole. Today we are one soldier poorer and the implications for the National Democratic Revolution are enormous. COSATU calls on all South African Students to step up the fight for a just, equitable and non-racial education. It is only by doing so that the heroes and heroines of the student movement will not have died in vain. For more information, contact: The General Secretary (SASCO Head Office) 011 336 0084/74 082 346 6194
