Zindzi Mandela: A victim of Covid-19
July 17 2020 By Abiodun Giwa
Zindzi Mandela
The Mandela family said that Zindzi Mandela tested positive for Covid-19 before her hospitalization and eventual death at a Johannesburg hospital on Monday, news reports have revealed. When Zindzi died on Monday, virtually all the news reports of her passage were silent on the cause of death, following an earlier statement released by President Cyril Ramaphosa.
But news reports of her burial on Friday shows lines revealing a family's statement that Zindzi tested positive to Covid-19 before her hospitalization. President Ramaphosa expressed appreciation to the family for the very important gesture with the nation of sharing the information, Al-Jazeera reported.
President Ramaphosa praised the family's decision to disclose Zindzi tested positive to the virus shortly before her hospitalization. He said the disclosure will encourage social acceptance for sufferers, in an eulogy at a virtual memorial on Thursday. According to the president, "The virus affects all of us, and there should never be any stigma around people who become infected."
Global Pentorch reported speculatively on Monday of a likely cover up on the cause of Zindzi's death. The report was based on the reading of all available news reports of the death of the South Africa's former ambassador to Denmark. There was an exercise of restrain in the report that avoided declaring Covid-19 as the cause of her death.
It was manifest in the news that emanated from South Africa on the day of Zindzi's that South Africa banned sales of alcohol to combat the virus over worries that the spread in the country was causing among South Africans. Zindzi's death has further shown that Covid-19 is spreading and that no one can be safe under the circumstances.
One lesson is that death will come, and and what people say about us matter when death comes. For Zindzi, it is a galore of tribute for her fighting spirit, in addition to being a daughter of two fighters, her father and mother. She is remembered by Nelson Mandela Foundation as a special soul, whose memory of rich and extraordinary life cannot be extinguished.
But news reports of her burial on Friday shows lines revealing a family's statement that Zindzi tested positive to Covid-19 before her hospitalization. President Ramaphosa expressed appreciation to the family for the very important gesture with the nation of sharing the information, Al-Jazeera reported.
President Ramaphosa praised the family's decision to disclose Zindzi tested positive to the virus shortly before her hospitalization. He said the disclosure will encourage social acceptance for sufferers, in an eulogy at a virtual memorial on Thursday. According to the president, "The virus affects all of us, and there should never be any stigma around people who become infected."
Global Pentorch reported speculatively on Monday of a likely cover up on the cause of Zindzi's death. The report was based on the reading of all available news reports of the death of the South Africa's former ambassador to Denmark. There was an exercise of restrain in the report that avoided declaring Covid-19 as the cause of her death.
It was manifest in the news that emanated from South Africa on the day of Zindzi's that South Africa banned sales of alcohol to combat the virus over worries that the spread in the country was causing among South Africans. Zindzi's death has further shown that Covid-19 is spreading and that no one can be safe under the circumstances.
One lesson is that death will come, and and what people say about us matter when death comes. For Zindzi, it is a galore of tribute for her fighting spirit, in addition to being a daughter of two fighters, her father and mother. She is remembered by Nelson Mandela Foundation as a special soul, whose memory of rich and extraordinary life cannot be extinguished.
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