South Africans gathered Saturday to bid farewell to Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, an anti-apartheid icon hailed as a political force and the mother of a nation and a political force. Crowds packed ...

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela is one of the most revered — and controversial — women in South African history. In a new documentary her granddaughters examine the liberation icon in all her complexity.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Winnie Mandela, the former first lady of South Africa and wife of Nelson Mandela, passed away at age 81. She died at Netcare ...

I remember sitting in Winnie Mandela’s Soweto backyard in the days leading up to her husband’s release from prison in February 1990. Her thick black curls seemed electrified — emblematic of the ...

Winnie Mandela’s life, as complex and divisive a figure as she was, reminds us that we can and must do better to improve the ...

South Africans share raw reactions to Netflix’s new Winnie Mandela documentary series, The Trials of Winnie Mandela—anger, ...

Winnie Mandela was the embodiment of the devotion, strength and tenacity that often makes Black women appear otherworldly to mere mortals. For decades she carried the hopes, fears and dreams of ...

On Monday, anti-apartheid hero and South African icon Winnie Mandela passed away, leaving behind a legacy that will never be forgotten. Social media was flooded with tributes to the former wife of ...

Jonny Steinberg tells the story of Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela at a moment when a new generation is reassessing their legacies. By Bongani Kona Representing Nelson and Winnie Mandela ...

Before she was Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, she was Nomzamo as a little girl – a Xhosa name which means ‘the one who tries.’ And she did… all her life (which ended earlier this week.) Her teacher mother ...

Netflix’s The Trials of Winnie Mandela has reignited fierce debate and anger, with South Africans split between admiration for her struggle role and anger over her controversies.