Winnie Madikizela

Mandela's second wife

They married in 1958, three months after his divorce from Evelyn.
Back then black marriages had traditionally been in community of property, which reduced the woman to a minor, unable to make any decision without her husband’s signed permission. Winnie was one of first black women in South Africa to have a prenuptial agreement, which allowed her to do business without her husband’s permission.
Winnie gave birth to two daughters, Zenani and Zindzi, before her husband began his life as a fugitive from the regime’s security forces in 1960.
Six years after his release they divorced, much to the shock of many South Africans who’d expected them to live happily ever after, although less so to ANC insiders.