A new play about anti-apartheid icon Winnie Madikizela-Mandela seeks to highlight the struggles of Black women in South Africa who had to wait years for their husbands’ return from exile, prison ...

Black women, in particular, have as much claim over the present-day South Africa as anybody else. However, this is not ...

Winnie Madikizela Mandela has died aged 81 ... contrasted sharply with the reconciliation espoused by her husband Nelson Mandela as he worked to forge a stable, pluralistic democracy from the ...

Winnie Mandela dead: Nelson Mandela's ex-wife and South African anti-apartheid campaigner dies after long illness at 81 ...

Without fear of contradiction, I think Winnie – anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela’s first wife – is an icon of women's ...

It was here, he said, that Nelson Mandela toiled virtually every day for 13 years, digging up rock, some of which paved the road we were driving on. The sun was so relentless, the quarry so bright ...

This short chapter from Mandela's memoirs deals with the end of his marriage and his regrets over neglecting his family. Meer has been close to both Winnie and Nelson for decades and talks about ...

Like her parents, Nelson Mandela and Winnie Mandela, Zindzi cut a figure of anti-apartheid freedom fighter following the footprints of her parents who suffered in the hands of the white government.

South Africa's leading woman struggle icon, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, was honoured for her courage, bravery and revolutionary spirit - something she demonstrated for more than six decades of her ...

but exhilarated Nelson and Winnie Mandela. The limousine comes to a stop, and its doors begin to open. Out into the night steps the 71-year-old deputy president of the African National Congress.

FILE: A picture taken on 13 April 1986 shows Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, then-wife of South African president Nelson Mandela and anti-apartheid campaigner, addressing a meeting in Kagiso township.