Madikizela-Mandela, Winifred Nomzamo Zanyiwe

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Madikizela-Mandela, Winifred Nomzamo Zanyiwe

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  • Zami
  • Nobandla
  • Madikizela-Mandela, Winnie
  • Mandela, Winnie

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Dates of existence

26 September 1936 - 2 April 2018

History

Social worker, anti-apartheid and women’s rights activist. Member of the ANC. Married to Nelson Mandela, 1958–96 (separated 1992). Mother of Zenani and Zindziswa Mandela. First qualified black medical social worker at the Baragwanath Hospital in Johannesburg. Held in solitary confinement for seventeen months in 1969. Placed under house arrest from 1970 and subjected to a series of banning orders from 1962 to 1987. Established the Black Women’s Federation, 1975, and the Black Parents’ Association, 1976, in response to the Soweto Uprising. President of the ANCWL, 1993–2003. ANC MP.

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Mandela-Dlamini, Zenani (4 February 1959 -)

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ZA-COM-00990

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family

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Mandela-Dlamini, Zenani is the child of Madikizela-Mandela, Winifred Nomzamo Zanyiwe

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Mandela, Zindziswa (23 December 1960 - 13 July 2020)

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ZA-COM-04003

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family

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Mandela, Zindziswa is the child of Madikizela-Mandela, Winifred Nomzamo Zanyiwe

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Xaba, Niki Iris Jane Nondyebo ( 1932–1985 )

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ZA-COM-03285

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family

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Xaba, Niki Iris Jane Nondyebo is the sibling of Madikizela-Mandela, Winifred Nomzamo Zanyiwe

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Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla (18 July 1918-5 December 2013)

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ZA-COM-00750

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family

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Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla is the spouse of Madikizela-Mandela, Winifred Nomzamo Zanyiwe

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1958-06-14 - 1996-03-19

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ZA-COM-03936

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