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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Mogomotsi Magome

A South African play about Winnie Madikizela-Mandela explores Black women's long wait for absent men

South Africa Winnie Mandela Theatre - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

A new play about anti-apartheid icon Winnie Madikizela-Mandela seeks to highlight the struggles of Black women in South Africa who had to wait years for their husbands’ return from exile, prison or faraway work during decades of white minority rule.

The play about the late former wife of Nelson Mandela, South Africa's first Black president, is adapted from the novel “The Cry of Winnie Mandela” by Njabulo Ndebele. It explores themes of loneliness, infidelity and betrayal.

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