Ailing State Capture Inquiry Whistleblower and witness Vytjie Mentor has died.
ActionSA said Tuesday that the party had “just learned” of her passing “this morning”.
ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba said: “Vytjie had been ill for some time and this morning her family called to inform us that she had succumbed to her illness after being hospitlaised for several months.”
Mentor, who would have turned 59 in October, was an African National Congress MP from 2002 to 2014 before she joined ActionSA as its provincial chairperson in the Western Cape.
Mashaba said: “It should t be forgotten that Vytjie Mentor was the first to sound the alarm on what we today call ‘state capture'”.
Mento was an early whistleblower on the Gupta brothers’ alleged influence in the appointment of ministers and senior government officials.
ActionSA said it sent condolences to Mentor’s family.
“We will keep the family and friends of Vytjie in our thoughts and prayers and ask that her loved ones be given the privacy to grieve during this time,” Mashaba said.
