Happy birthday to the South African revolutionary and anti-apartheid activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, also known to many Black South Africans as the “Mother of the Nation”! Her ideological persistence showed when, even after the end of apartheid in South Africa, she continued to fight for her revolutionary ideals.

Winnie became one of the leading opponents of apartheid, which led to her being regularly detained, and spending months in solitary confinement while being tortured and beaten. Instead of being intimidated by her experiences, she later told a reporter: “I no longer have the feeling of fear, there is nothing more to fear.” Winnie later headed the African National Congress’s(ANC) Women’s League and struggled against the oppression of and for equal rights for women.

Winnie was always, foremost, a freedom fighter, not only the “wife of Nelson Mandela” she is often made out to be. Unlike the ANC leadership, she acknowledged that even though apartheid had ended in South Africa, the enormous inequality of distribution and, thus, the economic oppression of the impoverished masses remained.

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