Winnie Mandela is cheered by supporters after appearing in the Krugersdorp Magistrate’s court, West of Johannesburg in connection with her arrest for flouting a banning order which prevents her from living in her Soweto home. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, prominent anti-apartheid activist and the ex-wife of Nelson Mandela, died in a hospital on Monday, April 2, 2018 after a long illness, her family said Monday. She was 81. (AP Photo, File)

 

On this day in 1936, South African activist Winnie Mandela was born in Eastern Cape, South Africa.

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