Zindzi Mandela, the youngest daughter of South Africa’s first black president Nelson Mandela has died aged 59, local media reported Monday. She was daughter to Winnie Madikizela and Mandela.
At the time of her death she was South Africa’s ambassador to Denmark. The Late Zindzi was also the co-founder of the Mandela Legacy foundation and also a managing trustee of the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund.
According to local South African media, the 59 year old passed away early Monday morning at Johannesburg hospital in South Africa. However the cause of her death wasn’t immediately revealed.
The Mandelas’ daughter came to international prominence in 1985, when the white minority government offered to release Nelson Mandela from prison if he denounced violence perpetrated by his movement, the Africa National Congress, against apartheid, the brutal system of racial discrimination enforced in South Africa at that time.
She is survived by her husband and four children.
May her Soul Rest in Eternal Peace.