South African anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela became the country’s first black president in 1994. He fought racism without violence, winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 for dismantling South Africa’s apartheid system. He died at the age of 95 in Johannesburg. In the autobiography Long Walk to Freedom, published the year his presidential term started, […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has described the death of South-African anti-apartheid icon, Mrs. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, as a huge loss to Africa. The South African anti-apartheid campaigner and former wife of the late President Nelson Mandela, died on Sunday at the age of 81. Buhari said that with her death, the continent had lost a courageous woman. […]
Nomzamo Winifred Madikizela-Mandela‚ died at the Netcare Milpark Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa on Monday. According to the family, Madikizela-Mandela died after a long illness, for which she had been in and out of hospital since the start of the year. She succumbed peacefully in the early hours of Monday afternoon surrounded by her family and loved […]