Mendi Msimang has been treasurer of the African National Congress

African National Congress

The African National Congress is South Africa's governing Africanist political party, supported by its tripartite alliance with the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the South African Communist Party , since the establishment of non-racial democracy in April 1994. It defines itself as a...

 since 1997. From 1994 until that time, he served as High Commissioner in London

London

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, England

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. He was married to former Minister of Health, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

Dr. Mantombazana 'Manto' Edmie Tshabalala-Msimang was a South African politician. She was Deputy Minister of Justice from 1996 to 1999 and controversially served as Minister of Health from 1999 to 2008 under President Thabo Mbeki...

, until her death in 2009. Msimang had been a member of the ANC Youth League and served as secretary to Walter Sisulu

Walter Sisulu

Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu was a South African anti-apartheid activist and member of the African National Congress .-Family and Education:...

. He acted as the ANC's London representative in the 1960s.