IN PICTURES | The life of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Nomzamo Winifred Madikizela-Mandela has died at the age of 81. We look back at moments of her life in pictures.
Winnie Madikizela Mandela during Cyril Ramaphosa's first speech as the newly elected as the president of the ANC at 54th African National Congress national conference at the Nasrec Expo Centre on December 20, 2017 in Soweto. ( Gallo Images / Alet Pretorius)
Nomzamo Winifred Madikizela-Mandela‚ a stalwart in the fight against apartheid‚ has died at the age of 81.
Family spokesman Victor Dlamini said on Monday afternoon: “It is with profound sadness that we inform the public that Winnie Madikizela-Mandela passed away at the Netcare Milpark Hospital‚ Johannesburg on Monday April 2.
“She died after a long illness‚ for which she had been in and out of hospital since the start of the year. She succumbed peacefully in the early hours of Monday afternoon surrounded by her family and loved ones.”
We take a look back at moments of her life in pictures:
Former president Nelson Mandela and his wife Winnie. Date unknown. (Gallo Images/Media24 Archives)
Former President Nelson Mandela and his wife, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. (Gallo Images/Media24 Archives)
Chris Hani with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. (TIMES MEDIA GROUP)
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and family visiting husband Nelson Mandela at Victor Verster prison in 1988. Dullah Omar is on the left in a light coat. (Gallo Images/Oryx Media Archive)
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela in the Transkei with Dali Mpofu and other unidentified friends at an ANC rally in 1989. ( Gallo Images/Oryx Media Archive)
ANC, PAC, IFP and Azapo leaders stand together at a peace rally in Bekkersdal in the early 1990s. On the right is Winnie Mandela and next to her is Tokyo Sexwale. (Gallo Images)
Oliver Tambo at Jan Smuts airport on December 13 1990. His wife, Adelaide, is on his left and Winnie Mandela is on his right. Son Dali is behind him (Gallo Images)
Winnie Mandelaat the funeral of OR Tambo in 1993. ( Gallo Images/Media24 Archives)
Winnie Mandela at the opening of Parliament in 1994. She was appointed deputy minister of arts, culture, science and technology in Mandela’s unity government. The next year, she was sacked for insubordination but kept her position as member of Parliament and head of the powerful Women’s League.
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Winnie Madikizela-Mandela at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) hearings. In its final report in 1998, the TRC ruled that Madikizela-Mandela was “politically and morally accountable for the gross violations of human rights committed by the Mandela United Football Club".
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Nelson Mandela celebrates his 86th birthday with his wife Graca Machel, left, and ex -wife Winnie Madikizela Mandela,right, in his rural home town of Qunu on July18 2004. Machel, who married Mandela in 1998, paid tribute to her predecessor in the years after her union.
“It’s unfortunate that in our lives we don’t interact very easily but I want to state very clearly that Winnie is my hero. Winnie is someone I respect highly,” Machel once said.
Nelson Mandela's ex-wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela at Mthatha Airport on December 7, 2014 in Mthatha, South Africa. (Gallo Images / Daily Despatch / Lulamile Feni)
Winnie Mandela after receiving a scarf with 491 pearls from her granddaughter, designer Swati Mandela. (Supplied)
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's granddaughter, Zoleka Mandela receives the Order of Luthuli in silver on behalf of her grandmother during the National Orders Awards ceremony on April 28, 2016 in Pretoria. ( Gallo Images / Beeld / Deean Vivier)
ANC stalwart Winnie Madikizela-Mandela gets ANC President Jacob Zuma and his deputy Cyril Ramaphosa to hold hands before the start of the ANC Policy conference at Nasrec on 6 July 2017. (Masi Losi/Sunday Times)
