Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, wife of the late South African leader Nelson Mandela, and a leading anti-apartheid figure in her own right during the country's most turbulent years, has died at age 81.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has died at the age of 81. According to multiple outlets including the New York Times and the BBC, her personal assistant confirmed Madikizela-Mandela’s death on Monday.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, prominent anti-apartheid activist and the ex-wife of Nelson Mandela, died in a hospital on Monday, April 2, 2018 after a long illness, her family said Monday.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the antiapartheid activist and former wife of Nelson Mandela who herself endured prison and painful personal sacrifices for black freedom, died Monday. She was 81 years old.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the South African anti-apartheid activist who was married to Nelson Mandela for nearly four decades, died in Johannesburg at age 81 on Monday after what her spokesman ...

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, prominent anti-apartheid activist and the ex-wife of Nelson Mandela, died at the age of 81. (AP Photo) Madikizela-Mandela died Monday in a Johannesburg hospital at the ...

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PRETORIA, South Africa -- The South African government will honor Winnie Madikizela-Mandela with an official national funeral. The anti-apartheid icon, who was married to Nelson Mandela for 37 ...

Updated on April 5 at 6:44 AM. A few months after I moved to South Africa in 2009, I expressed the wish to meet Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Nelson Mandela’s ex-wife, to a friend of mine.

Anti-apartheid activist and wife of the late Nelson Mandela, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela died Monday at 81. She was renowned for revving up crowds with her fierce speeches denouncing the apartheid ...

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, prominent anti-apartheid activist and the ex-wife of Nelson Mandela, died in a hospital on Monday after a long illness. She was 81.