🇿🇦 The controversial side of the late Winnie Mandela | Al Jazeera English

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the ex-wife of the late South African anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, has died at the age of 81. A veteran herself of the anti-apartheid struggle, Winnie Mandela died on Monday afternoon.

Although at one time she was afforded heroine status for her courage during Mandela's 27-year incarceration, she was later demonised for how far she was prepared to go in the struggle for liberation.

The freedom fighter will be given a State burial next Saturday, April 14. Many people remember the significant role she played in the country's liberation struggle... for which she suffered (in) AT the hands of the apartheid regime she was fighting.

Al Jazeera's Catherine Soi reports from Johannesburg, South Africa, on her legacy.

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