Anti-apartheid stalwart Omar dies

Transport minister Dullah Omar, a leading human rights lawyer and anti-apartheid activist who was justice minister in South Africa’s first black-lead government, died today of cancer.

Omar had been battling Hodgkins Classic, a cancer of the lymph nodes, for more than a year. He died in the early hours of today at Constantiaberg Medi-Clinic in Cape Town, the government said in a statement.