The daughter of Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela is dead. Zindzi Mandela died at the age of 59 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
A daughter of Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) died at the age of 59. As the South African radio and media agency "SABC" reports, Zindzi Mandela died on Monday morning in a hospital in Johannesburg. She was the youngest daughter of the freedom fighter and his second wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (1936-2018).
What Zindzi Mandela died from is not clear from the report. Like her father, the 59-year-old was politically active. Since 2015 she has been an ambassador for her home country in Denmark. She first became known to the masses when she stepped in front of the television cameras in 1985 and read the letter from her father, who was still imprisoned at the time. With the words "My Father says …", on behalf of the South African national hero, she refused the release that President Pieter Willem Botha (1916-2006) offered him at the time would have.