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Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela-Mandela, also known as Winnie Mandela, was a South African politician, anti-apartheid activist, and second wife of Nelson Mandela. During her political career, she served as a Member of Parliament from 1994 to 2003, and from 2009 until her death, and was a deputy minister of arts and culture from 1994 to 1996. A member of the African National Congress (ANC) poli…
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politics · South African activist and politician (1936–2018) · politician · also Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Winnie Mandela, Nomzamo Winfreda Zanyiwe Madikizela, Nomzamo Winfreda Madikizela, Nomzamo Winfred Madikizela-Mandela, Winnie
Born 26 September 1936 · Died 2 April 2018 · Q239062
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It has never been about me, the person. I’ve never regarded myself as an individual, I’m just part of this whole liberation machine … I always talk about us - as we - because I’m just part of the whole collective.
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2026· 7 entries
“It has never been about me, the person. I’ve never regarded myself as an individual, I’m just part of this whole liberation machine … I always talk about us - as we - because I’m just part of the whole collective.”
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“the first time she felt her story had been captured on film”
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The Citizen: Sinkhole fears ease as Winnie Mandela Drive leak repaired, but motorists remain on edge
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LAist: Winnie Mandela doc
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Modern Ghana: Winnie Mandela Is No Longer Here With Us; So Let’s Make Do With Lupita O’Nyango
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PM News Nigeria: Winnie Mandela emerges as Africa’s greatest female liberation fighter
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2025· 2 entries
The New York Times: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
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Yahoo: A South African play about Winnie Madikizela-Mandela explores Black women's long wait for absent men
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2022· 1 entry
The section of the R562 road connecting Midrand with Olifantsfontein, was renamed from Olifantsfontein Road to Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Road by the City of Ekurhuleni in Gauteng
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2021· 1 entry
The Mbizana Local Municipality in the Eastern Cape (which includes her birthplace) was officially renamed the Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Local Municipality
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2018· 10 entries
CBS News: Anti-Apartheid Activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Laid To Rest
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Yahoo: 'Winnie!' South Africa bids farewell to Madikizela-Mandela
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The Citizen: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, mother of the nation, political activist and fashion icon remembered
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WTEN: Anti-apartheid activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela dies
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Huffington Post UK: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, South African Anti-Apartheid Campaigner, Has Died Aged 81
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WRAL: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Is Dead at 81; Fought Apartheid
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LAist: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Dies At Age 81
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Died 2018-04-02.
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“Opis: o fenomenie Winnie Madikizeli-Mandeli.”
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“If you are to free yourselves you must break the chains of oppression yourselves. Only then can we express our dignity, only when we have liberated ourselves can we co-operate with other groups. Any acceptance of humiliation, indignity or insult is acceptance of inferiority.”
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2016· 2 entries
Awarded Order of Luthuli (2016).
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And she was reportedly preparing to appeal to the Constitutional Court at the time of her death, after failing at the Supreme Court of Appeal in January 2018
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2014· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the National Assembly of South Africa (2014–2018).
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2013· 1 entry
By the National Prosecuting Authority's Missing People's Task Team, having been stabbed soon after their abductions
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2010· 1 entry
Madikizela-Mandela was interviewed by Nadira Naipaul
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2009· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of parliament (2009–2018).
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Career landmark: member of the National Assembly of South Africa (2009–2014).
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2007· 1 entry
An opera based on her life called The Passion of Winnie was produced in Canada; however, she was declined a visa to attend its world premiere and associated gala fundraising concert
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2003· 3 entries
Madikizela-Mandela was convicted of theft and fraud, and she temporarily withdrew from active politics before returning several years later
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Madikizela-Mandela offered to act as a human shield prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq
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Helped defuse a hostage situation at Wits University, where a student who was in arrears with fees took a staff member hostage at knifepoint
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2002· 1 entry
Madikizela-Mandela was found guilty by a Parliamentary ethics committee of failing to disclose donations and financial interests
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1998· 1 entry
Found "Ms Winnie Madikizela Mandela politically and morally accountable for the gross violations of human rights committed by the Mandela United Football Club" and that she "was responsible, by omission, for the commissi
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1997· 1 entry
Appeared before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
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1995· 2 entries
Because they regarded Madikizela-Mandela as a "criminal"
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Prominent members of the ANC Women's League, including Adelaide Tambo resigned from the National Executive Committee of that body because of disagreement with Madikizela-Mandela's leadership of the body and amid a contro
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1994· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of parliament (1994–2003).
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“Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Biography Summary”
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1992· 3 entries
“s most famous love story was over. Still an ANC MP and living in Soweto, Madikizela-Mandela has since continued to divide opinions but has never been banished from the former president”
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Lost her position as the head of the ANC social welfare department, amid allegations of corruption
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Was accused of ordering the murder of Abu Baker Asvat, a family friend and prominent Soweto doctor, who had examined Seipei at Mandela's house, after Seipei had been abducted but before he had been killed
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1991· 1 entry
Mrs Mandela was acquitted of all but the kidnapping of Seipei
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1988· 3 entries
Awarded United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights (1988).
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Awarded Candace Award (1988).
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Madikizela-Mandela's home was burned by high school students in Soweto, in retaliation for the actions of the Mandela United Football Club
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1985· 1 entry
Awarded Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award (1985).
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1963· 1 entry
After Mandela was imprisoned following the Rivonia Trial, she became his public face during the 27 years he spent in jail
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1958· 1 entry
And had two daughters, Zenani (born 1959) and Zindziswa (born 1960)
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1957· 1 entry
When he was still married to Evelyn Mase
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1956· 1 entry
And decades later earned a bachelor's degree in international relations from the University of the Witwatersrand
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1936· 1 entry
Born 1936-09-26.
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