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South African anti-apartheid campaigner Winnie Mandela is dead

 
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

Winnie Madikizela Mandela has died aged 81. Hailed as the mother of ‘new’ South Africa, Madikizela’s legacy as an anti-apartheid heroine was undone when she was revealed to be a ruthless ideologue prepared to sacrifice laws and lives in pursuit of revolution and redress.

Her uncompromising methods and refusal to forgive contrasted sharply with the reconciliation espoused by her husband Nelson Mandela as he worked to forge a stable, pluralistic democracy from the racial division and oppression of apartheid.

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