Dukwana said this during a media briefing on Sunday morning at Makgoe’s residence in Wekkie Saayman street, Universitas, in Bloemfontein.

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Makgoe lost his life together, as did his bodyguard, Warrant Officer Vuyo Mdi, after the vehicle they were travelling in collided with three cows on the N1 outside Winburg in the Free State.

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Driver, Warrant Officer Pule Nkopane, remains in a critical condition in a Bloemfontein hospital.

An emotional Dukwana said Makgoe devoted his life to the disadvantaged and marginalised in order to fully realise the objectives of true political transformation and the total eradication of poverty.

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"We would like to send our condolences to his family and to his wife, Aus Ivy and the children of our late comrade. We would also like to extend our condolences to the people of the Free State as well as the people of the country and the education fraternity, the learners whom he dedicated his whole life to, by serving and making sure that he turned the Free State into a winning province when it came to education," he said.

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Dukwana further said that Makgoe leaves behind a department that remains on the upper echelons of the education sector in the country.

He further stated that the provincial government will communicate details of Makgoe’s funeral after communicating with the family.

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