However, Winnie was also a controversial figure and involved in many scandals. She was a member of parliament for several years. Winnie Mandela continued her political career and became a deputy minister in the first post-Apartheid government. Shortly afterward, the couple separated and divorced in 1996, two years after Nelson Mandela had become South Africa’s first black president. When Nelson Mandela was released from Robben Island, it was the “Mother of the Nation”, as she was often called, who marched with him to freedom. Winnie was a prominent member of the African National Congress and the head of its Women’s League. During this period Winnie Mandela was her husband’s link to the outside world. For over two and a half decades she campaigned for his release. When her husband was imprisoned in 1963 it was Winnie who led the movement against Apartheid. In the 1950s she met Nelson and married him in 1958. In her early life, she was a social worker in a hospital. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was born in 1936 in the Eastern Cape province, which at that time was the homeland of Transkei. She died at the age of 81 in her home in Soweto, Johannesburg after a long illness.
Winnie Mandela was a female South African activist who fought against Apartheid, together with her husband, South Africa’s first black president, Nelson Mandela.
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