Hailed as mother of the \u2018new\u2019 South Africa, Winnie Madikizela- Mandela died in Johannesburg yesterday aged 81.<\/p>\n
She will be remembered as an anti-apartheid heroine.<\/p>\n
In her twilight years, Madikizela-Mandela had frequent run-ins with authority that further undermined her reputation as a fighter against the white-minority regime that ran Africa\u2019s most advanced economy from 1948 to 1994.<\/p>\n
During her husband\u2019s 27-year incarceration, Madikizela-Mandela campaigned tirelessly for his release and for the rights of black South Africans, suffering years of detention, banishment and arrest by the white authorities.<\/p>\n
She remained steadfast and unbowed throughout, emerging to punch the air triumphantly in the clenched-fist salute of black power as she walked hand-in-hand with Mandela out of Cape Town\u2019s Victor Vester prison on February 11 1990.<\/p>\n
For husband and wife, it was a crowning moment that led four years later to the end of centuries of white domination when Mandela became South Africa\u2019s first black president.<\/p>\n
But, for Madikizela- Mandela, the end of apartheid marked the start of a string of legal and political troubles that, accompanied by tales of her glamorous living, kept her in the spotlight.<\/p>\n
She and Mandela separated in 1992 and her reputation slipped further when he sacked her from his cabinet in 1995 after allegations of corruption. The couple divorced a year later, after which she adopted the surname Madikizela-Mandela.<\/p>\n
Born on September 26 1936, in Bizana, Eastern Cape province, Madikizela-Mandela became politicised at an early age in her job as a hospital social worker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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