‘A sweetheart as much if not more than her husband’

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s funeral Tweets

● I cry because Winnie’s brilliance was not hidden but it was submerged and suffocated under the so-called brilliance of her husband.

My heart hurts.

She was a sweetheart and a humanitarian as much if not more than her husband. — @Fascinatingly Unbalanced ● Indeed you don’t realize what you have until it leaves you, we have lost as a nation. — @Vutivi Kimberley Mabasa

● We could see the rain coming from Soweto and as the highway was closed, the heavens opened up. It poured as the cortège passed. The electric feeling of being on the overpass with other people, fists raised, chanting ‘Winnie!’ will stay with me for a long time. — @Melzinbala ● This moved me in ways I didn’t expect. Mostly because I never fully grasped the magnitude of woman she was, how enormous and enduring her spirit was until she was no more.

Lala ngoxolo mama. May your tenacious spirit live on in all of us. — @Shangri-la

● Speaking from a place of truth is a high calling. Ask those who heard #JuliusMalema today at #Winnie Mandela Funeral!

He was an authority beyond any, titles notwithstanding. — @Gibson Mithaa

● I’m overwhelmed with gratitude because I am the results of your struggle.

I enjoy the fruits of a tree you planted with your pain. Thank you for everything, and thank God for borrowing the world a woman of your magnitude. — @Welisa Nene