{"id":10397,"date":"2020-07-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=10397"},"modified":"2020-07-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T00:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=10397","title":{"rendered":"Ricardo Mthembu, politician"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ricardo Mthembu – who served as the mayor of KwaDukuza for eight years before being deployed to the ANC KZN spokesperson position following the party's 2018 provincial conference \u2011 died on the morning of July 8, 2020, in hospital, allegedly due to Covid-19 complications.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

He was also a member of the African National Congress provincial executive committee, and served as chairman of the cooperative governance and traditional affairs (COGTA) portfolio committee in legislature.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Mthembu joined provincial legislature following the 2019 national and provincial elections.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Ricardo Mthembu – who served as the mayor of KwaDukuza for eight years before being deployed to the ANC KZN spokesperson position following the party's 2018 provincial conference \u2011 died on the morning of July 8, 2020, in hospital, allegedly due to Covid-19 complications. He was also a member of the African National Congress provincial […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[47,7019,6204],"tags":[1051,114,8051,113,792,6710,6709,8236,6224,6237,878,6434,6435],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/wp-content\/uploads\/imageholder\/uploads\/Ricardo_Mthembu.webp","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4026,"url":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=4026","url_meta":{"origin":10397,"position":0},"title":"Jim Henderson, politician","date":"May 3, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Donald James \"Jim\" Henderson \u2011 a Canadian politician who served as a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1985 to 1995 \u2013 succumbed to coronavirus on May 2, 2020. 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