Nelson Mandela’s Daughter, Zindzi Tested Positive For COVID-19 Before Her Death

Zindzi Mandela, the youngest daughter of late South African president Nelson Mandela, who died a few days back at the age of 59, has been reported to have tested positive for COVID-19.

She died in a Johannesburg hospital in the early hours of Monday morning, public broadcaster SABC said.

Her son, Zondwa Mandela, confirmed that she tested positive to COVID-19 before her demise.

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Speaking with South Africa’s public broadcaster, SABC, Zondwa said:

‘My mother did, in fact, test positive for Covid-19 on the day of her passing.

‘Although, this doesn’t, therefore, mean that she died of COVID-related complications, but simply that she tested positive for it.

‘Simply by the virtue that there was a positive test, we are therefore obligated to function and work within the framework of the existing regulation related to such cases.’

The 59-year-old, Zindzi Mandela, became an international figure when she read out Nelson Mandela’s rejection of then-president P.W. Botha’s offer for freedom in 1985,

She served as South Africa’s ambassador to Denmark. She first took up her position as the ambassador to Denmark in 2015.

She is survived by her husband and four children