By Akinwale Kasali
Late Former South Africa’s President and Aperthied hero, Nelson Mandela’s youngest daughter, Zindzi Mandela, has died.
Zindzi was said to have died in a Johannesburg hospital in the early hours of today, Monday 13th July, 2020, South Africa Broadcasting Corporation, SABC, reported.
Until her death, Zindzi was serving as the South African Ambassador to Denmark. She was aged 59 years.
The cause of her death is yet to be revealed.
Zindzi was Nelson Mandela’s sixth child and his second with late Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, his second wife.
“This is untimely. She still had a role to play in the transformation of our own society and a bigger role to play even in the African National Congress, ANC,” said ANC spokesman Pule Mabe.
Minister of International Relations, Naledi Pandor, said: “Zindzi will not only be remembered as a daughter of our struggle heroes, but as a struggle heroine in her own right.”
