Fatima Meer, a friend and biographer of Nelson Mandela has died. She was 81. The South African Press Association quoted a local politician and family friend, Logie Naidoo, as saying Meer died in a Durban hospital Friday. The cause of death was not given. In a statement, Achmat Dangor ...

South African anti-apartheid activist Fatima Meer, a close friend of former president Nelson Mandela and supporter of the late Steve Biko, died in hospital on Friday, a family friend said. She was 81. "She was admitted into hospital 10 days ago ... She had a stroke and passed away this afternoon," Ashwin Desai, a family friend, told AFP. An academic, author ...

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela on Friday said she never granted an interview to a journalist who quoted her in a British newspaper as saying her ex-husband Nelson Mandela had "let down" the blacks. "I did not give Naipaul an interview. It is therefore not necessary for me to respond in any detail to the contents of a fabricated interview," Madikizela-Mandela said in ...