No other woman – in life and after – occupies the place that Winnie Madikizela-Mandela does in South African politics.
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Winnie Mandela’s death signals the end of an era, the loss of a freedom fighter who served as the public face of an imprisoned Nelson Mandela.
Let Mam’ Winnie rest in peace
Madikizela-Mandela, an anti-apartheid struggle icon, was also the former wife of late president Nelson Mandela
Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela was 81
He saw women as equals in the fight against apartheid and, post-apartheid, we must do so too
The anti-apartheid activist will soon turn 80 and her beauty has been a talking point.