The Washington Post: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela dies at 81

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Winnie Madikizela-Mandela dies at 81. She was a prominent anti-apartheid activist and former wife of Nelson Mandela.
by Washington Post Staff April 2 at 10:21 AM

At the time of her death, long after her divorce from the country’s first democratically elected president, Madikizela-Mandela was still called the Mother of the Nation. And in many ways, she epitomized the “new” South Africa far more than her idealized former husband.

She was a political insider who often played the role of outsider. While other leaders moved to luxurious, previously all-white suburbs, Madikizela-Mandela stayed in Soweto, the black township southwest of Johannesburg.
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