President Cyril Ramaphosa has expressed his sadness at the passing of the last surviving signatory of the Freedom Charter and Accused No 4 in the 1956 Treason Trial, Leon Levy.
The 96-year-old member of the South African Congress of Trade Unions SACTU and the Communist Party of South Africa, died in Cape Town on Saturday.
He was arrested in 1956 and charged with treason together with his brother, Norman.