Remembering Zindzi Mandela, a daughter of the Struggle
A baby when her famous father was taken away, a teen when she saw him again, Zindzi Mandela grew up on the front lines of the battle against apartheid, heroically shaped by it and tragically warped
19 July 2020 - 00:00
For almost 27 years Zindziswa “Zindzi” Mandela, who has died at the age of 59 in Johannesburg, yearned to have a father she didn't have to apply in triplicate to visit for 30 minutes once a year or so. Permission would be granted or denied by some faceless bureaucrat...
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