Spirit of Winnie Mandela remembered

SOUTH Africa's leading woman strug- gle icon, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, was honoured for her courage, bravery and revolutionary spirit - something she demonstrated for more than six decades of her life as a freedom fighter.

- SIYABONGA SITHOLE

Madikizela-Mandela, who passed away in 2018, was celebrated during a public memorial lecture in her name which launched the Gauteng Provincial Government's Human Rights Day Celebrations at the Women's Jail in Constitution Hill, Johannesburg on Thursday.

Delivering the keynote address, Gauteng MEC for finance and economic development, Lebogang Maile remembered her unwavering revolutionary spirit as well as being a mother to all.

"Mamma Winnie was a mother to all of us regardless of our political persuasion. She was a one-woman resistance army and a truly revolutionary who was guided by a great feeling of love. She was truly the mother of the nation, who was also one of the first women to serve time in this very same jail," he stated.