South Africa’s former defence minister and anti-apartheid campaigner Mosiuoa Lekota has died at the age of 77, his party said. Lekota died after a “period of illness”, the Congress of the People (Cope) said in a statement. He played a key role in the struggle against the racist system of apartheid and was imprisoned on [...] The post South Africa’s long-serving former defence minister and former Robben Island prisoner dies appeared first on Kahawatungu .