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Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Dies At 81

Web Desk(April 02, 2018): South African anti-apartheid campaigner Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has died aged 81, her personal assistant says.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was the former wife of South Africa’s first black president, Nelson Mandela.

Nelson and Winnie Mandela raise clenched fists to supporters upon Nelson’s release from jail in February 1990.

The couple – famously pictured hand-in-hand as Mr. Mandela walked free from prison after 27 years – were a symbol of the anti-apartheid struggle for nearly three decades.However, in later years her reputation became tainted legally and politically.

Family spokesman Victor Dlamini said Mrs. Mandela “succumbed peacefully in the early hours of Monday afternoon surrounded by her family and loved ones” following a long illness, which had seen her go in and out of the hospital since the start of the year.

Retired archbishop and Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu praised her as a “defining symbol of the struggle against apartheid”.

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