SOWETO,South Africans turned out in thousands to bid final goodbyes to anti-apartheid icon and Nelson Mandela's former wife Winnie Mandela who is being laid to rest with full state honours on Saturday. "South Africa, and indeed the world, holds men and women to different standards of morality." 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: Daily Nation April 14, 2018 15:56 UTC