ANC member of Parliament and former Northern Cape Public Works MEC, Mxolisi Sokatsha, has died in a car crash.
Condolences have been pouring in on Twitter from across the globe.
“It is with great sadness to hear about the passing of Mr Mxolisi Sokatsha, a Member of Parliament, URCSA Theology Student, & family man. When I was preaching at Hanover during the resurrection Sunday, he was interpreting my sermon. I also shared Communion with him.RIP Brother.”
Last year the ANC parliamentarian Mxolisi Sokatsha made headlines when he admitted that Unisa “academically excluded” him from pursuing postgraduate studies for two years over suspected plagiarism (in theology studies).
Mxolisa Simon Sokatsha, born 7 January 1965, is a South African accountant, educator and politician serving as a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa since 2019.
He was a Member of the Executive Council in the Northern Cape from 2009 to 2019 and a Member of the Northern Cape Provincial Legislature from 2003 to 2019.
Sokatsha is a member of the African National Congress.
During the 1980s, Sokatsha was involved in the establishment of the Midlands and Karoo Youth Congress.
He served as the chairperson of the South African Students Congress and SANTISCO. He was the site chairperson of the South African Democratic Trade Union in Graaff-Reinet and Richmond.
Sokatsha served as the first post-apartheid mayor of Richmond between 1994 and 1996. He was also the chairperson of the ANC’s Pixley ka Seme region for three terms.
Sokatsha is survived by his wife and 3 children.