Zindzi Mandela

Zindzi Mandela in 2013

Zindziswa "Zindzi" Mandela (23 December 1960 - 13 July 2020), also known as Zindzi Mandela-Hlongwane, was a South African diplomat and poet, and the daughter of anti-apartheid activists and politicians Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. Zindzi was the youngest and third of Nelson Mandela's three daughters, including sister Zenani Mandela. She had served as her country's ambassador to Denmark, until her death in 2020, and was due to take up a post as ambassador to Liberia. She served as a stand-in First Lady of South Africa from 1996 to 1998.

Quotes

• Dear Apartheid Apologists, your time is over. You will not rule again. We do not fear you. Finally #TheLandIsOurs”.
  • Zindzi's tweet on land reform in south Africa
• From a very early age I learnt to internalise, to project a very confident persona and be strong.
  • on being strong despite childhood trauma
• I had to believe one day we would be free. The struggle became my motivation – that’s all I could hang on to.
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• I like to define myself not according to what I have suffered but according to how much I have overcome, and I am very grateful to my mother for instilling that in both me and my sister… I never see a glass half empty but I see it half full.
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Quotes about Zindziswa Mandela

• After our liberation she became an icon of the task we began of transforming our society and stepping into spaces and opportunities that had been denied to generations of South Africans.
  • President Cyril Ramaphosa quoted
• What she did, the sacrifices, the hardships she went through, the difficult life she led, we will forever be grateful because it was done so our people can be free.
  • President Ramaphosa quoted
• She carved her own path in life, and did things on her own terms.
  • Princess Swati Diamini-Mandela said in her tribute