President Muhammadu Buhari has described the passing away of South-African anti-apartheid icon, Mrs. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, as a huge loss to Africa.
Mrs. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was a courageous woman, he said.
The president noted that she was a woman of uncommon determination, steadfastness and perseverance who held aloft the torch of the struggle against institutionalised discrimination even while her ex-husband, the late Madiba, President Nelson Mandela, was incarcerated.
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President Buhari expressed condolence on behalf of the government and people of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to the family of the deceased, the government and people of South Africa.
He urged them to be consoled by the knowledge that the late Winnie Mandela’s contributions to ending apartheid would not be forgotten.
According to him, she remained a pride not only to the African woman, but indeed all Africans.
The president prayed that God Almighty would comfort all those who mourned the departed and grant her soul eternal rest.
Winnie Mandela died at the age of 81.
