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Duarte’s memorial service to be held at Johannesburg City Hall on Thursday

LOCAL The memorial service for the late African National Congress (ANC) deputy secretary-general, Jessie Duarte is expected to be held at the Johannesburg City Hall on Thursday. The party declared a week of mourning in her honour, ordering all structures to fly the party flag at half-mast after her passing. Duarte died on Sunday after battling cancer. She was 68-years-old. She was laid to rest in a Special Official Funeral Category 2 […]

today21 July 2022

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SA mourns the loss of comrade Yasmin ‘Jessie’ Duarte

The ANC’s deputy secretary general, Yasmin 'Jessie' Duarte, passed away early this morning. She was 68. Duarte battled cancer and had been on medical leave since November last year. She will be buried according to Muslim rites in Johannesburg later today. The party has expressed its heartfelt condolences to Duarte’s family and friends. Spokesperson Pule Mabe says her passing is a great loss, not only for the family but also […]

today17 July 2022

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No campaigning at ANC’s policy conference, warns Duarte

ANC deputy secretary general Jessie Duarte has warned policy conference delegates that there will be no space for campaigning for their favoured leaders. The ANC’s 5th policy conference gets underway at Nasrec, amidst succession talk that has divided the party between the presidential campaigns of deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa and former African Union chair Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. Both factions are expected to use the conference to gauge support ahead of the […]

today21 June 2017

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Mantashe, Duarte move to end tension

The ANC’s top leadership moved to defuse tensions in the party’s parliamentary caucus this week, after ANC chief whip Jackson Mthembu’s call for the national executive committee (NEC) to step down caused disquiet in some quarters. Four ANC sources in Parliament independently told City Press that the party’s secretary-general, Gwede Mantashe, and his deputy, Jessie Duarte, used the opportunity while in Cape Town for the medium-term budget policy statement to […]

today30 October 2016

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