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Winnie Mandela attends an African National
Congress (ANC) led alliance send off ceremony for former South African
President Nelson Mandela at Waterkloof military airbase on December 14,
2013 in Pretoria, South Africa.
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*Nelson Mandela’s ex-wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela is contesting the will
of the late anti-apartheid hero in a bid to claim the country estate where he
is buried.
Relatives of the South African political icon have been bickering over his
estate since his death in December, and Mandela’s second wife is now insisting
ownership of his country home should pass to her family.
Madikizela-Mandela, who married the civil rights activist in 1958 and
divorced him in 1996, claims the property in Qunu should belong to her and her
children because she bought it in 1989, during her then husband’s imprisonment
on Robben Island.
Her lawyer has addressed her claim in a letter to South Africa’s Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke.
Madikizela-Mandela was left nothing in her ex-husband’s will and his $4.1
million estate is to be split between his family, the African National Congress
party, former staff and a number of schools.
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