The news was confirmed on Monday morning by the Nelson Mandela Foundation.

The daughter of former President Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela served as South Africa’s ambassador to Denmark.

Mandela died in a Johannesburg hospital during the early hours of the Monday morning

Minister of International Relations and
Cooperation Naledi Pandor said her department was still gathering
information regarding her death.

“Zindzi will not only be remembered as a daughter of our struggle heroes, Tata
Nelson and Mama Winnie Mandela, but as a struggle heroine in her own
right. She served South Africa well,” Pandor said in a statement,
expressing her condolences to the Mandela family and their loved ones.

“May her soul rest in peace.”