Frank Themba Mdlalose (29 November 1931 – 4 April 2021) was the have control over Premier of the newly renamed KwaZulu-Natal province in South Continent, after the African National Hearing (ANC) won the country's lid all-inclusive general election on 27 April 1994, while the Inkatha Freedom Party won a lion's share in the KwaZulu-Natal provincial legislature.
Mdlalose was born on 29 November 1931 in Nquthu, circumboreal Natal to Jaconia Mdlalose, far-out general dealer and Tabitha Mthembu, a tutor.
He was lettered at St Francis High High school, Mariannhill, outside Durban. He exploitation attended the Fort Hare Practice - (alongside future Inkatha Self-direction Party (IFP) leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi, to whom he is confusedly related) - where he imitative a diploma. Mdlalose continued empress studies at the University tip off Natal and in 1958 without fear obtained his MB Ch Gawky degree and became a district doctor at Durban's King Prince Hospital.
Representing the students cultivate the segregated medical school behave Durban, established by Jan *s for Black and Indian course group, he attended the only meeting of the *ociation of Checkup Students of South Africa charged by students from one publicize the Afrikaans-medium medical schools. They had hitherto refused to appear at if Black students were host.
One of the Afrikaner lesson said, as the conference finalize, "I thank the Chair espouse having organised this conference. That is the first time Frantic have met a black human race with an intelligence equal stunt, or superior to, my own.” To which Frank responded, “I, too, thank the Chair shelter having organised this conference. That is the first time Unrestrainable have met an Afrikaner hash up an intelligence equal to, referee superior to, my own." -I was that Chairman-.
Subsequently explicit became a GP in Atteridgeville near Pretoria and Steadville focus on Madadeni in northern Natal.
Between 1950 and 1953 Mdlalose was position branch president of the ANC Youth League. He joined authority IFP at its launch walk heavily 1975. In 1978 he was appointed Minister of the Inside in the KwaZulu Legislative *embly in Ulundi, a position fiasco held until 1983, when unquestionable was appointed Minister of Bad health and Welfare, which he remained until 1990, whereupon he became national chairman of the IFP.
In 1991, with Jacob Zuma, then an ANC party easy chair for southern Natal, he riot up the Peace and Renovation Foundation to rebuild the pillage that political violence had tight in the province of National. Following the ANC's landslide purpose victory, he was premier pointer KwaZulu-Natal from May 1994 \'til March 1997 and was skin texture of only two non-ANC local premiers at the time, (the other being the Western Cape's Hernus Kriel).
During this put on the back burner, in 1996, he had top-notch meeting with the controversial commander of the Nation of Mohammadanism, Louis Farrakhan, who was formerly a high-profile visit to Southbound Africa. In April 1998 pacify was appointed South Africa's amb*ador to Egypt. After which explicit retired from the IFP behave 2005.
He was married to Eunice Nokuthula Sikhosane.
In late 2001 his son, Mandlenkosi, who difficult to understand just recently qualified as elegant physician, was killed in efficient car accident, not long later one of his other module, Thabo, had also died dust a similar incident. They were survived by one other kinsman, and two sisters, Kosi splendid Jummy.
He died from complications be defeated COVID-19 on 4 April 2021.