Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
26 September 1936 – 2 April 2018
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was a South African politician and anti-apartheid campaigner who trained as a social worker before marrying Nelson Mandela in 1958. During his imprisonment she was detained, banned and banished by the apartheid state, and became a prominent public figure in the resistance. After 1994 she served as a member of parliament and briefly as a deputy minister, and was convicted in court cases in 1991 and 2003.
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Life events
Born Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela to a family of teachers in the Transkei region.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgStudied at the Jan Hofmeyr School of Social Work and took a post at Baragwanath Hospital.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe couple married in Bizana and had two daughters.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgArrested in May 1969 and held for about 17 months, much of it in solitary confinement in Pretoria.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgForcibly relocated by the apartheid authorities to a township outside Brandfort, where she remained until 1985.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgSentenced to six years' imprisonment; on appeal in 1993 the sentence was reduced to a fine and a suspended term.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgLed the league through the transition to democratic elections.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgServed in the first post-apartheid cabinet until her dismissal in 1995.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe marriage was dissolved after the couple had separated in 1992.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgDied at the age of 81 after a long illness.
Source: en.wikipedia.org