Winnie Madikizela-Mandela belongs to the record of public life as a figure whose work outlasted the moment that produced it.
The record lists Winnie Madikizela-Mandela as South African activist and politician (1936-2018).
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was born in 1936. Her recorded nationality is South Africa. She was educated at University of the Witwatersrand.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
The record gives her occupations as politician.
Power is judged twice: once by contemporaries who felt it, and again by historians who did not.
Her work was formally recognised with the United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award and Candace Award.
That the work was done from South Africa matters. Opportunity has never been evenly distributed, and where a person is based shapes which doors open and whose work gets seen.
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela died in 2018 at the age of 82. The work outlived the arguments around it.
Achievements
- Educated at University of the Witwatersrand
- Worked as politician
