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A South African politician, member of the African National Congress, and former wife of freedom fighter Nelson Mandela. She is known as Winnie Mandela and was born in the town of Mbongweni, South Africa. Her parents worked as teachers. She earned a university degree in social work in 1956, unusual for a black woman at that time, and she later earned a bachelor's degree in international relations. She fought against the apartheid regime in South Africa, with the activist lawyer Nelson Mandela, whom she met in 1957, and married him in June 1958, when she was twenty-one years old and he was forty years old and divorced with children. Through her struggle, Winnie became a prominent member of the National Congress Party, and her fame increased internationally as one of the symbols of the struggle against the apartheid system. In 1993, she was elected president of the African National Congress Women’s League and was elected a member of Parliament. She was appointed Deputy Minister of Culture, following the first multi-racial and representative elections in 1994. She died on April 2, 2018, in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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