Freedom Fighter

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the onetime wife of the South African hero Nelson Mandela, who rose from being the world’s most famous political prisoner—serving 27 grueling years—to his nation’s presidency, was also an outspoken anti-apartheid activist.

- Remam.Smith

She, too, served time; among other detainments, she was imprisoned in 1969 and spent more than a year in solitary confinement. The mother of two was also “banned” from her Soweto home. But the woman born Nomamzo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela—whose first name means “she who must endure trials&