WATCH: ‘Fearless’ Zindzi reads Madiba’s letter to PW Botha
Tributes poured in for the late struggle stalwart Zindzi Mandela on Monday following her death at the age of 59.
Mandela, who was the daughter of former president Nelson Mandela and the late struggle stalwart Winnie Mandikizela-Mandela, was South Africa’s ambassador to Denmark.
She passed away at a Johannesburg hospital on Monday.
Zindzi managed to carve out a place for herself in the history books, joining her parents from a young age in contributing to the fight for non-racialism and democracy.
On 10 February 1985 Mandela, who was in her twenties at the time, stood in front of thousands of supporters in Soweto and read out her father's rejection of an offer by the then president of the apartheid regime, PW Botha.
Botha had offered her father his release from prison on the condition that he renounces violence and protests.
"My father says, I am surprised at the conditions the government wants to impose on me, I am not a violent man. My colleagues and I wrote in 1952 to Malan, asking for a roundtable conference to find a solution to the problems of our country, but that was ignored."
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