Staff Reporter
The late struggle stalwart Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, an outstanding
veteran of the liberation struggle, was posthumously honoured on Saturday
with the ANC’s Isithwalandwe during her party’s manifesto launch in
Durban in KwaZulu-Natal.
“We dip our banner in honour of giants and stalwarts such as Winnie
Madikizela-Mandela,” said President Cyril Ramaphosa.
Madikizela-Mandela died in April last year after a long illness.
She fought apartheid and played an active role in the building of ANC
underground structures, campaign for international solidarity and freedom struggles.
Known as the Mother of the Nation, she paid a heavy price for her political
convictions, her outspokenness including campaigns for the release of
political activists, especially for Robben Island prisoners.
She was banned, detained and banished to a lonely life in Brandfort in the
Free State in the 1970s.
Throughout her life, she remained a committed freedom fighter who championed the cause of a non-racial and
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