South African anti-apartheid veteran Asmal dies (AP)

JOHANNESBURG ? Former South African President Nelson Mandela's office says Kader Asmal, a prominent member of the governing African National Congress who pressed his party to keep its democratic promises, died Wednesday. He was 76.

The Nelson Mandela Foundation says Asmal "struggled for decades in South Africa and in exile" against apartheid.

He led anti-apartheid protests in high school. He later left for Britain and Ireland, where he continued anti-apartheid activism and taught law at Dublin's Trinity College.

He returned to South Africa in 1990 and participated in negotiations that led to South Africa's first all-race elections in 1994, and later served in Cabinet.

Asmal occasionally was publicly rebuked by the ANC after raising concern about party stances he feared threatened democracy.

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