Pravin Gordhan: Veteran South Africa minister dies aged 75

Pravin Gordhan was known for trying to stand up to corruption under former President Jacob Zuma.

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The anti-apartheid struggle veteran played a key role in South Africa's transition to democracy and helped negotiate the end of white-minority rule.

As well as finance minister, he occupied other top government and administrative roles since the 1990s until he announced his retirement from politics in May.

The veteran cabinet minister died in hospital early on Friday after "a short, courageous battle with cancer", his family said in a statement.

It added that he was "surrounded by his family, closest friends and his lifelong comrades in the liberation struggle when he passed away in the early hours this morning".

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