1. Zindziswa "Zindzi" Mandela, 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.
17 Facts About Zindzi Mandela
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Zindzi Mandela 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.
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Zindzi Mandela served as a stand-in First Lady of South Africa from 1996 to 1998.
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Zindzi Mandela was born on 23 December 1960 in Soweto, in what was then the Union of South Africa, to Nelson and Winnie Mandela.
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In 1977, when her mother was banished to the Orange Free State, Zindzi Mandela went to live with her there.
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Zindzi Mandela was not able to complete her education until she was sent to Swaziland.
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Consequently, Zindzi Mandela was chosen to read his refusal at a public meeting on 10 February 1985.
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Zindzi Mandela's poetry was published in 1978 in the book Black as I Am, with photographs by Peter Magubane, and has appeared in publications including Somehow We Survive: An Anthology of South African Writing, edited by Sterling Plumpp, and Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent, edited by Margaret Busby.
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Zindzi Mandela studied law at the University of Cape Town, where she earned a BA in 1985.
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Zindzi Mandela served as a stand-in First Lady of South Africa from 1996 until 1998, between her parents' divorce and her father's remarriage, to Graca Machel.
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Zindzi Mandela was appointed South Africa's ambassador to Denmark in 2014.
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Zindzi Mandela-Hlongwane had previously that month expressed her "deep, pure unconditional love and respect" for "CIC" of the Economic Freedom Fighters, Julius Malema.
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Zindzi Mandela was ordered by foreign minister Naledi Pandor to "conduct herself as a diplomat" and to adhere to the department's social media policy, and concern about her views was expressed by former president Thabo Mbeki, and her views were described as hate speech by ANC veteran Mavuso Msimang, while her opinions drew support from the EFF and the Premier of KwaZulu-Natal Sihle Zikalala.
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Zindzi Mandela's tweets came close to the end of her four-year term as ambassador to Denmark.
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Zindzi Mandela married her second husband, Molapo Motlhajwa, who was a member of the South African National Defence Force, in March 2013.
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Zindzi Mandela-Hlongwane was said to have agreed to arrange a boxing match between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao to coincide with her father's birthday in 2011.
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Zindzi Mandela died on 13 July 2020, aged 59, at a hospital in Johannesburg.