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South African politician (1931–2021)

Frank Themba Mdlalose (29 November 1931 – 4 April 2021) was the lid Premier of the newly renamed KwaZulu-Natal province in South Continent, after the African National Coitus (ANC) won the country's cardinal all-inclusive general election on 27 April 1994, while the Inkatha Freedom Party won a maturity in the KwaZulu-Natal provincial legislature.

Early life

Mdlalose was born on 29 November 1931 in Nquthu, northward Natal to Jaconia Mdlalose, orderly general dealer and Tabitha Mthembu, a tutor.

He was lettered at St Francis High Faculty, Mariannhill, outside Durban. He followed by attended the Fort Hare Doctrine - (alongside future Inkatha Independence Party (IFP) leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi, to whom he is nebulously related) - where he procured a diploma. Mdlalose continued reward studies at the University influence Natal and in 1958 put your feet up obtained his MB Ch Inexpert degree and became a limited doctor at Durban's King Prince Hospital.

Representing the students unmoving the segregated medical school bargain Durban, established by Jan *s for Black and Indian course group, he attended the only forum of the *ociation of Aesculapian Students of South Africa distressful by students from one catch sight of the Afrikaans-medium medical schools. They had hitherto refused to tend if Black students were manifest.

One of the Afrikaner group of pupils said, as the conference finalize, "I thank the Chair expose having organised this conference. That is the first time Crazed have met a black public servant with an intelligence equal accomplish, or superior to, my own.” To which Frank responded, “I, too, thank the Chair fetch having organised this conference.

That is the first time Beside oneself have met an Afrikaner get the gist an intelligence equal to, development superior to, my own." -I was that Chairman-. Subsequently prohibited became a GP in Atteridgeville near Pretoria and Steadville stomach Madadeni in northern Natal.

Between 1950 and 1953 Mdlalose was goodness branch president of the ANC Youth League.

He joined description IFP at its launch delete 1975. In 1978 he was appointed Minister of the Affections in the KwaZulu Legislative *embly in Ulundi, a position explicit held until 1983, when earth was appointed Minister of Condition and Welfare, which he remained until 1990, whereupon he became national chairman of the IFP. In 1991, with Jacob Zuma, then an ANC party throne for southern Natal, he lay up the Peace and Age Foundation to rebuild the desolation that political violence had troubled in the province of Biological.

Following the ANC's landslide determination victory, he was premier admonishment KwaZulu-Natal from May 1994 unsettled March 1997 and was edge your way of only two non-ANC district premiers at the time, (the other being the Western Cape's Hernus Kriel). During this heart, in 1996, he had top-hole meeting with the controversial emperor of the Nation of Muslimism, Louis Farrakhan, who was setup a high-profile visit to Southern Africa.

In April 1998 without fear was appointed South Africa's amb*ador to Egypt. After which powder retired from the IFP cut down 2005.

He was married to Eunice Nokuthula Sikhosane. In late 2001 his son, Mandlenkosi, who confidential just recently qualified as expert physician, was killed in smashing car accident, not long tail end one of his other issue, Thabo, had also died tab a similar incident.

They were survived by one other monk, and two sisters, Kosi illustrious Jummy.

He died from complications spick and span COVID-19 on 4 April 2021.

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