Bongani Sibeko Biography – Bongani Sibeko Wiki
Bongani Sibeko was a South African Film and television producer, political strategist, and businessman . Bongani passed on on August 12, 2021, in South Africa. Prior to his death, he was working on a drama series, Family Secrets, as executive producer and head writer for the production company he co-owned with his wife.
“Family Secrets represented more than the plot lines of a television show based on a mega-wealthy powerful family, steeped in intrigue, wedged into the richest square kilometer on the African continent,” the David and Elizabeth Sibeko Foundation said in a statement. It was a peek into the soul of Bongani Sibeko’s belief that the aspirations, heroes, and heroines of Africans didn’t need to fixate on predictable Hollywood pre-packaged, recycled archetypes of who and what the everyday African should be glued to on their TVs.”
His credits and accomplishments included working to elect the first African-American mayor of New York City, the late David Dinkins, to hosting the first visit to New York of former president Nelson Mandela under the newly elected Dinkins administration. The late Bongani also worked with the late ! Khoisan X (formerly known as Benny Alexander) in hosting American religious leader and political activist Louis Farrakhan. His family said his impact on the lives of many people was far and wide-reaching.
“As a businessman, political strategist, veteran and leader, film and television producer, and more, Bongani will be greatly missed and to those who loved him, with baffling frustration, because we are left wondering how a flame that burned so brilliantly can be extinguished so quickly,” the foundation said.
Bongani Sibeko Age
He was 60 years old at the time of his death on August 12, 2021.
Bongani Sibeko Wife
He is survived by his wife, Pulane, and three children who are currently residents of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Bongani Sibeko Children
He was a father of three children currently living in Johannesburg.
Bongani Sibeko Family
He was born in Soweto to liberation struggle stalwarts, the late David and Elizabeth Sibeko, his family later lived in exile in Tanzania, the United Kingdom, and New York before returning to South Africa after 1994.
Bongani Sibeko Death
He died in the early hours of Thursday, August 12, 2021, at the age of 60. He passed on at the Sandton Mediclinic in Johannesburg after being admitted with a respiratory infection as per his family. In a statement released by the family’s spokesman David Sibeko, it read, “What we know as the family, is that this was essentially organ failure because he had gone to the hospital for a respiratory infection … there were complications. He couldn’t recover from that.”
David said the funeral arrangements would be finalized by Monday, August 16, 2021, according to The Times Live.
Bongani Sibeko Cause of Death
The cause of his death was organ failure after being admitted to the hospital for a respiratory infection. He was 60.
