Liberation icon Zondeni Veronica Sobukwe (91) has died, the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) said on Wednesday.

The PAC said the widow of its party founder, Robert Sobukwe, passed away in the early hours after a long illness.

"It is with great sadness that we wake up at the saddest news, we have lost one icon of the liberation, Mma Veronica Sobukwe," said the PAC in a terse statement.