[5] Pahad was also involved in raising R1.55 million from corporate sponsors to hire Ronald Suresh Roberts to write a biography of then President Mbeki.

An independent survey by Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) reported in January 2010 that South African whites in fact generally supported the event.

[8] Pahad was filmed attending the wedding of Vega Gupta and Aakash Jahajgarhia an event which sparked[citation needed] the so-called Guptagate scandal in South Africa.

[3] After leaving government in 2008, Pahad launched a South African monthly (later quarterly) journal named The Thinker,[9] which was later taken over by the University of Johannesburg in 2019.

Pahad died of cancer on 6 July 2023, at the age of 84,[2][10] and his funeral was attended by a number of high profile ANC figures, including Acting President of South Africa Paul Mashatile.