Zindzi Mandela, the youngest daughter of South Africa’s ex-president Nelson Mandela tested positive for Covid-19 the day she died.
She died at the age of 59 in a Johannesburg hospital in the early hours of Monday.
Zindzi was serving as ambassador to Denmark at the time of her death. The cause of her death was not immediately revealed.
But her son Zondwa Mandela told public broadcaster SABC that it is unclear if the virus caused her death as the family awaits the autopsy report.
“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,” he said.
Zondwa said his mother will be buried on Friday morning.
Before her death Ms Mandela had been designated to become South Africa’s head of mission in Monrovia, Liberia.
Gone too soon #RIPZindziMandela pic.twitter.com/Mtj5PCVmkf
— Mzilikazi wa Afrika (@IamMzilikazi) July 13, 2020
She was Nelson Mandela’s sixth child and his second with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, his second wife.
Source: Africafeeds.com
