Andile nkuhlu biography death

Andile Nkuhlu, who has died in Johannesburg at the age of 45, was never far from controversy. He was a well-connected mover and shaker in the ANC Youth League, a close friend of corporate crook Brett Kebble, and one of then-president Thabo Mbeki's loudest and most enthusiastic praise singers. He helped to lead the failed campaign to have Mbeki re-elected as president of the ANC for a third term at the party's Polokwane conference in By encouraging Mbeki to believe he would win, he contributed to the president's humiliation and ultimate expulsion as president of the country.

Right up to the eve of the election, Nkuhlu, whose uncle Professor Wiseman Nkuhlu was Mbeki's economic adviser, continued to persuade Mbeki that he was ahead on points and would defeat his rival, Jacob Zuma. When the party began imploding after the elections, Nkuhlu returned to the ANC in time for its national conference in Mangaung.

Nkuhlu was one of the top leaders of the youth league in the Mbeki era, and made millions out of government tenders and selling special access to the government.

Andile nkuhlu biography death: Andile Nkuhlu, who has died

He was a regular at the youth league business networking lounge during ANC conferences. One of the league's clients and business partners was Kebble. On the night he was shot dead in his car in an alleged assisted suicide in , he was supposedly on his way to have supper with Nkuhlu. Nkuhlu was vocal in stating that he had not believed the assisted suicide theory "for one moment".