Zindzi Mandela

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Zindzi Mandela (2013)

Nobutho Zindziswa "Zindzi" Mandela-Hlongwane (born December 23, 1960 in Johannesburg ; † July 13, 2020 there ) was a South African poet and politician . She was the ambassador of her home country to Denmark from 2015 to 2019 . She also appeared officially as the First Lady of South Africa between 1996 and 1998, after her father Nelson Mandela's divorce and until his remarriage .

Life

Zindzi Mandela was the youngest daughter of Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela . Her childhood was marked by the constant absence of her imprisoned father and reprisals against the family. In 1972 she wrote a letter to the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid , complaining about the politically motivated attacks against her family. Already in her youth, she wrote poems that were first published in 1978 as a book called Black as I Am and later translated into German by Annemarie and Heinrich Böll .

She also became known for her speech My Father Says ... , in which she publicly presented in 1985 her father's rejection of the government's offer to release him under certain conditions. Zindzi Mandela was included in the Daughters of Africa anthology published in 1992 by Margaret Busby in London and New York.

In 1993 she married the shopkeeper Zwelibansi Hlongwane. She is portrayed by Moshidi Motshegwa in the 1996 drama Mandela and de Klerk . A Broadway - Musical based on the memories of Zindzi Mandela was in 2008 in the planning.

In 2008 she went to court for failing to pay the rent on her house. In 2019 she was noticed by a tweet that caused media and party political turmoil in her home country. In doing so, she campaigned against the "apologists of apartheid " and for the expropriation of white landowners.

Mandela died in a Johannesburg hospital on July 13, 2020. She leaves four children.

literature

  • Zindzi Mandela, Peter Magubane : Black as I am. Poems and Photos from Soweto . Translated from the English by Annemarie and Heinrich Böll. Bornheim 1982, ISBN 3-921521-33-5 .
  • Alan Fischer, Michel Albeldas, Hermann Giliomee : A Question of survival: conversations with key South Africans. J. Publishers, 1987, pp. 448ff.

Web links

Commons : Zindzi Mandela-Hlongwane  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Julia Llewellyn Smith: Zindzi Mandela interview: the father I knew. In: Telegraph.co.uk . December 15, 2013, accessed July 13, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Black Poetry: Poems by Zindzi Mandela. In: The time . June 3, 1988, archived from the original on July 1, 2016 ; accessed on July 13, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Mandela: An Audio History is told through the voices of more than 50 people who fought with - and against - Nelson Mandela. In: mandelahistory.org. Retrieved July 13, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Kenneth Jones: Mandela-Inspired Musical About Apartheid Years Being Developed for Broadway. In: Playbill. May 20, 2008, archived from the original on August 4, 2009 ; accessed on July 13, 2020 (English).
  5. ↑ Kim Hawkey: Landlady says Zindzi 'trashed' home. In: Sunday Times . November 16, 2008, accessed July 13, 2020 (English, reproduced on pressreader.com).
  6. ↑ Lizeka Tandwa: EFF rejects call by AfriForum to fire Zindzi Mandela over 'white people' tweets. In: News24. June 18, 2019, accessed on July 13, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Claudia Bröll: Zindzi Mandela died. In: FAZ.net . July 13, 2020, accessed July 13, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Nelson Mandela's daughter dies at the age of 59. In: rnd.de . July 13, 2020, accessed July 13, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Mandela, Zindzi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mandela, Nobutho Zindziswa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African poet and politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Johannesburg
DATE OF DEATH July 13, 2020
Place of death Johannesburg