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Nelson Mandela’s daughter Zindzi dies at 59

Zindzi Mandela, the daughter of South Africa’s anti-apartheid icons Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, has died, public broadcaster SABC has reported.ربما تحتوي الصورة على: ‏شخص واحد‏

She died in Johannesburg on Monday morning aged 59.

The death has been confirmed by a family source, SABC reports.

She was the South African ambassador to Denmark at the time of her death. The cause of her death was not immediately revealed.

“The 59-year-old daughter of former president Nelson Mandela and struggle stalwart Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, passed away at a Johannesburg hospital in the early hours of this morning,” said SABC.

She was Nelson Mandela’s sixth child and his second with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.

department was still gathering information regarding her death.

“Zindzi will not only be remembered as a daughter of our struggle heroes, Tata Nelson and Mama Winnie Mandela, but as a struggle heroine in her own right. She served South Africa well,” the online news portal News24.com quoted Pandor as saying in a statement. .

She leaves behind four children. The news of her death was also shared on Twitter by son Bambatha.

“Zindzi Mandela is no more! The true Ambassador of our National has departed! We have lost a brave champion of our nation. May her soul rest in peace,” the Cape Town ETC news portal quoted the tweet as saying.

She was Nelson Mandela’s sixth child and his second with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.

Zindzi Mandela, born on December 23, 1960 in Soweto, stood in as the First Lady of South Africa until her father remarried in 1998.

When Nelson Mandela was offered a conditional release in 1985 by then South African President, P.W. Botha, his reply could not be delivered and Zindzi was chosen to read his refusal at a public meeting, the SABC report said.

In 2014, she was appointed as the Ambassador to Denmark.