Celebrated lawyer and ‘daughter of the soil’ to be buried on Saturday

Celebrated Mthatha lawyer NomaHala Sangoni, and former Nelson Rholihlahla Mandela Trust caretaker of the Mandela residence in Qunu, will be buried at her home in Zimbane village in Mthatha on Saturday. She died at home at the age of 80 on March 26 after a long illness. The versatile Sangoni, who had worked as a nurse, teacher, lawyer, prosecutor, magistrate and assistant librarian, was one of the founding members of the South African Women Lawyers’ Association.