# Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Ronald Lamola, has expressed his sadness at the passing of South Africa’s ambassador to Côte d’Ivoire, Zolani Mtshotshisa. He passed away in a hospital in South Africa. Mtshotshisa was an activist in the Black Consciousness Movement with Steve Biko before joining the ANC in later years. Lamola says Mtshotshisa was devoted to the maintenance of good political, diplomatic, economic and people-to-people ties between South Africa and Côte d’Ivoire.
Minister Lamola mourns the passing of SA ambassador to Côte d’Ivoire, Zolani Mtshotshisa