the news of The death of Zindzi Mandela, the youngest daughter of the first black president of south africa Nelson Mandela, was announced on Monday. Engaged in the struggle against apartheid, she was 59 years old. In Johannesburg, where the sad event took place, the causes of his death have not been revealed. In a statement, the south african president Cyril Ramaphosa, presented its "deepest condolences to the family of Mandela, saying it was" deeply saddened by the death of (...) Zindziswa "Zindzi" Nobutho Mandela ". The head of State has paid tribute to " a courageous political activist ", who has participated, like his father, with the armed wing of the african national Congress (ANC), the spearhead of the struggle against the apartheid regime officially fell in 1994.
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A political career marked by courage
" Zindzi Mandela was widely known in the country and in the world. During our years of struggle, she has raised awareness of the inhumanity of the apartheid regime and the dogged determination of our struggle for freedom, " said Cyril Ramaphosa, a member of the ANC, the ruling party since 1994. In 1985, before a stadium packed to the township of Soweto, a centre of resistance to the racist regime, the young Zindzi had read a speech of his father, then in prison, in which he rejected the proposal of the then president PW Botha to release him on condition that he renounces to protests and violence against the apartheid. With this " act of heroism ", it is input " in the hearts of many young brave people who have continued to make the country ungovernable ", said the parliamentary group of the ANC in a press release. Zindzi Mandela had been named 2015 ambassador of South Africa in Denmark and was soon taking up his duties as ambassador to Liberia. Nelson Mandela, who has been married three times, had six children, four of whom are now deceased, including Thembekile, killed in a traffic accident in 1969, 51 years to the day before Zindzi.
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A childhood without his dad
Zindzi Mandela was the youngest daughter of Nelson Mandela, Nobel peace Prize laureate and first president of south african black (1994-1999), and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, who inspired a popular but controversial subject of the struggle against apartheid. She grew up in the absence of his father, arrested in 1962, two years after his birth, and released in 1990. With the death of Zindzi Mandela, South Africa loses "those that many consider to be a child of the nation," said former archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel peace Prize laureate and close friend of Nelson Mandela. "During the 27 years that Nelson Mandela spent in prison (1963-1990), his family, his wife Winnie Mandela and daughters Zindzi and Zenani, have played an essential role to embody the humanity and tenacity of the battle against apartheid ", said Desmond Tutu in a statement released by his foundation.
