South Africa have lost Zindzi Mandela who was late Nelson Mandela’s youngest daughter .
Zindzi Mandela died on 12th July in 2020 while working as an ambassador to Denmark
“The 59-year-old daughter of former president Nelson Mandela and struggle stalwart Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, passed away at a Johannesburg hospital in the early hours of this morning,” said public broadcaster SABC.
SA’s government did not announce the cause of her death immediately
About Zindzi Mandela
- Also known as Zindzi Mandela-Hlongwane, she was the third of Nelson Mandela’s three daughters, born to Winnie Mandela
- Zindzi Mandela was just 18 months when haer dad was sent to prison for period of 27 years
- At the time of her in 1960, African National Congress (ANC) had just launched an armed wing in fight against apartheid rules
- She was forced to study in Swaziland after her mother was banished in Orange Free State
- She was chosen to read the refusal at a public meeting on 10 February 1985 after the colonialists offered Mandela a conditional release
- In 1985, she earned a degree in law at the University of Cape Town in SA.
- In 1996, Zindzi suffered a setback when her parents Winnie and Mandela divorced. Zindzi was chosen to accompany her father to his inauguration and become the stand in First Lady of South
- In 1998 on his 80th birthday, Mandela got married to to former Mozambique first lady Graça Machel.
- She was sued in 2011 after arrange a failed boxing match between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao to coincide with her father’s birthday in 2011.
- At the time of her death, she had four kids and had been married twice
