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By Thahasello Mphatsoe

Multimedia Journalist


WATCH LIVE: Wreath Laying Ceremony of Comrade Jessie Duarte

She had been on medical leave since November 2021.


Jessie Yasmin Duarte passed away on 17 July 2022. The ANC’s deputy secretary general was undergoing cancer treatment at the time of her death and she had been on medical leave since November 2021.

Read Article: ‘They get sick and die, why?’ – Zuma hopes ‘there is no foul play’ in Duarte’s death

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