Tlaleng Mofokeng maintains EFF candidacy in Johannesburg after her husband’s death
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Daily Maverick
Tlaleng Mofokeng, the Economic Freedom Fighters’ candidate for Johannesburg mayor, is continuing her campaign despite her husband’s death on 10 July. The doctor and human rights activist, a former UN special rapporteur on the right to health, wants to offer a different direction to a municipality in crisis, according to the Daily Maverick.
South African doctor and human rights activist Tlaleng Mofokeng is maintaining her Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) candidacy for Johannesburg mayor, despite her husband’s death on 10 July, the Daily Maverick reports. Aged 44, she briefly considered withdrawing from the race before deciding to continue.
Her husband had encouraged her to stand, believing that after defending the rights of others around the world, she could take up that fight in their city. Mofokeng is now campaigning while grieving and taking on the responsibilities of parenting alone.
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