The President has declared a special official funeral category 2 honoring Dr Tito Mboweni the late former minister of finance, who passed at the age of 65, on the 12 of October, Saturday.
Dr Mboweni became the first minister of Labour in the Cabinet of Founding President Nelson Mandela from 1994 to 1999. From 1999 he served as a Gorvernor of the South African Reserve Bank, he became the Minister of Finance in 2018 to 2021 in the administration led by President Cyril Ramaphosa.
Dr Mboweni’s Special Official Funeral Category 2 will take place at Nkowankowa Stadium,Tzaneen in Limpopo, at 10:00 Saturday, 19 October 2024. The President has directed that the National flag be flown at half-mast at all flag stations from today Wednesday, 16 October 2024, until the evening of the funeral.