Pretoria - Cabinet has sent condolences to the family and friends of South Africa-born internationally acclaimed opera singer, Johan Botha.
Addressing the media on Thursday in a post Cabinet briefing, Minister in the Presidency for Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, Jeff Radebe, said Botha will be remembered for his soothing and powerful voice, which was heard in various opera theatres and halls across the globe, including the Vienna State Opera.
The Vienna State Opera made Botha a Kammersanger, a title bestowed on distinguished singers of opera and classic music in Austria and Germany.
Minister Radebe also conveyed Cabinet’s condolences to the families, friends and colleagues of the Transnet train driver and train assistant, who died when a Transnet goods train derailed at the Delvillewood train station following a landslide in Hillcrest, west of Durban.
Cabinet has also sent its condolences to the people of Tanzania following a 5.7 magnitude earthquake that claimed a number of lives.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of those who died and were injured,” said the Minister. - SAnews.gov.za
