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| Winnie Mandela: South African anti-apartheid campaigner dies at 81 | |
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| South African anti-apartheid campaigner Winnie Mandela has died aged 81, her personal assistant says. | South African anti-apartheid campaigner Winnie Mandela has died aged 81, her personal assistant says. |
| Winnie Madikizela Mandela was the former wife of South Africa's first black president, Nelson Mandela. | Winnie Madikizela Mandela was the former wife of South Africa's first black president, Nelson Mandela. |
| The couple - famously pictured hand-in-hand as Mr Mandela walked free from prison after 27 years - were a symbol of the anti-apartheid struggle for nearly three decades. | The couple - famously pictured hand-in-hand as Mr Mandela walked free from prison after 27 years - were a symbol of the anti-apartheid struggle for nearly three decades. |
| However, in later years her reputation became tainted legally and politically. | However, in later years her reputation became tainted legally and politically. |
| Family spokesman Victor Dlamini said in a statement: "She 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 ones." | |
| Mrs Mandela was born in 1936 in the Eastern Cape - then known as Transkei. | |
| She was a trained social worker when she met her future husband in the 1950s. They were married for a total of 38 years, although for almost three decades of that time they were separated due to Mr Mandela's imprisonment. | |
| Despite their separation two years after his release, and their divorce in 1996, she kept his surname and maintained ties with him. |