‘We are indebted to Prof Bengu for his patriotic and visionary service’: Ramaphosa

President Cyril Ramaphosa has described former education minister Sibusiso Bengu as a pioneering leader in South Africa’s democratic dispensation and administration. Expressing sadness about his death, he highlighted how Bengu played a key role in leading the transformation of education within a democratic government of national unity when deep divisions existed over the extent to which this transformation should proceed.The former South African ambassador to Germany and former minister of education, who was 90, died in his sleep at home on Monday. According to his family, he…