ANC mourns former Luthuli House General Manager Ignatius Jacobs

Former ANC’s Luthuli House general manager Ignatius Jacobs has died following a three year battle with cancer.

The 56-year-old Jacobs was an underground operative of the ANC armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe.

Jacobs, who was born on July 31 in 1963, was an activist of the United Democratic Front affiliated to Azapo student wing, Azaso.

He also served in the ANC Youth League and in both the ANC and the South African Communist Party (SACP) in Gauteng.

In the Gauteng Legislature, he served as the MEC for Education, Social Development, as well as Transport.

The AN’s spokesperson Pule Mabe said in a statement that his contribution was worthy of emulation by young people.

“The people of our country will treasure his memory as one of our most distinguished sons, who consciously chose to fight a cruel and inhumane system at a time when it was extremely dangerous to do so,”