This Day in History: May 7, 2006
Additional Date: May 7, 2006
Former Transkei Prime Minister and Minister of Public Work Stella Sigcau died at Durban's St Augustine Hospital at the age of 69. Sigcau died of a recurring heart problem. In 1994 first-post apartheid government she was appointed Minister of Public Enterprise and in 1999, when President Thabo Mbeki reshuffled his cabinet, she was given the ministerial of Public works. Sigcau left behind three children.