Winnie Mandela, who died in Johannesburg aged 81 on April 2 after a long illness, has been celebrated for helping keep Nelson Mandela's dream of a non-racial South Africa alive while he was behind bars for 27 years. "She is truly the mother of South Africa," Jackson told journalists on Friday. Instead she remained embedded in the community where she met Nelson Mandela at a bus stop in 1957. In old age, Winnie Mandela emerged as a respected elder who was feted as a living reminder of her late husband -- and of the long and celebrated struggle against apartheid. But when Nelson Mandela died in 2013, it emerged he had left Winnie nothing in his will.

Source: The Guardian April 14, 2018 09:33 UTC