KATHMANDU: Zindziswa Mandela, daughter of former South African president Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, has died. She was 59.

State television South African Broadcasting Corporation has reported that Mandela died at a Johannesburg hospital early Monday morning

Zindziswa, daughter of the icon of South Africa's anti-apartheid struggle, was South Africa's ambassador to Denmark.

Also known as Zindzi, she was a political and social activist, also the founder of Mandela Legacy.

The daughter of South Africa's first black president is survived by four children and husband Molapo Motlhajwa.