Could I have a statement, please? http://thisav.fun/ thisav Helena Dolny, a banking executive, watched her husband, Joe Slovo, one of Mandela's Cabinet ministers and a leading member of Mandela's party, the African National Congress, die a slow death from cancer. Dolny is writing a three-part series in the Johannesburg paper City Press called "Let's talk about dying." She wrote that Mandela is giving South Africa a "precious parting gift" by spurring a conversation about death.