Kurup will be remembered as a political survivor


KOTA KINABALU: Tan Sri Joseph Kurup is probably a rare Sabah politician who survived the state's rough and tough political terrain.

For nearly four decades, Kurup has stayed in the corridors of power at the state and federal levels where many of his more influential contemporaries fell into the political wilderness of Sabah.

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