KZN Premier offers condolences after Paddy Kearney's death
The Office of the Premier in KwaZulu-Natal has described Paddy Kearney as one of the county's most illustrious sons.
The activist died following a heart attack on Friday.
Kearney founded the Denis Hurley Centre.
He also spent three decades at the helm of the Diakonia Council of Churches and chaired the Gandhi Development Trust.
The spokesperson for the Office of the Premier, Thami Ngidi, says Kearney played a major role in the history of KZN.
“Particularly in the building of social cohesion in the province,” he says, “By the example of his life, Kearney showed a new South Africa could be built on the ashes of apartheid”.