Condolences for Gardee

• Published date: 04 May 2022
• Publication title: South African Official News

Minister of Social Development Lindiwe Zulu has conveyed government's condolences to the family of former EFF Secretary General and Commissar, Godrich Gardee, on the passing of his daughter, Hillary.

'For [a] start is to really pass our condolences to the family of Gardee and the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) in general because we know that they will be there for him,' Zulu said when responding to member's statements during a plenary of the National Assembly on Tuesday.

Hillary's lifeless body was found abandoned outside Nelspruit in Mpumalanga after she went missing on 29 April.

According to a statement by the EFF, the death of the 28-year-old - who was born in Lagos in Nigeria and was Gardee's first born daughter - has left the family distraught and the collective EFF leadership at a loss for words.

At the time of her death, Gardee was a part-time IT...