Her granddaughter Ndileka Mandela confirmed the information to dpa on Monday
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Madikizela-Mandela’s death on April 2 at the age of 81 after a long illness was met by an outpouring of emotion across the country.
President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa on Tuesday paid tribute to the late anti-apartheid icon Winnie Madikizela-Mandela at a memorial…
Madikizela-Mandela passed away on April 2, after a long illness in Johannesburg and will be laid to rest on April 14.
“Hundreds of red-clad supporters of the radical opposition Economic Freedom Fighters marched to Madikizela-Mandela’s home in the Johannesburg township of Soweto on Tuesday to pay homage to “the Mother of the Nation,’’ television footage showed.
Madikizela-Mandela died on Monday at a private hospital after a long illness.
The news of her death filtered in on Monday afternoon
Times Live, quoting her spokesman, Victor Dlamini, said the 81-year-old had complained of a “loss of appetite” and that “one of her legs was painful”
Former first lady Madikizela-Mandela, 80, was in hospital for several weeks in 2016 for back surgery
Speaking to The Sunday Independent, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela said Nelson Mandela could not talk “because of all the tubes that are in his mouth to clear the lungs” and prevent further infection
Madikizela-Mandela, has said the leader has lost his voice but uses his face to communicate with family and doctors