Aziz Goolam Hoosein Pahad was a South African politician and anti-apartheid activist who was Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1994 to 2008.
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He was a member of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress from 1985 to 2007.
Pahad was born on 25 December 1940 in Schweizer-Reneke in the former Transvaal, but his family moved to Johannesburg in 1945.
His parents were Amina and Goolam Pahad, activists in the Transvaal Indian Congress, and his elder brother, Essop, also became an activist.
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Pahad married Sandra Black-Pahad in 1994 in Johannesburg; they had children. She filed for divorce in 2006. Pahad died on 27 September 2023, just two months after his brothers Junaid and Essop. He was 82.
Is Aziz Pahad related to Essop Pahad?
His parents were Amina and Goolam Pahad, activists in the Transvaal Indian Congress, and his elder brother, Essop, also became an activist.
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