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If you have spent time as an in-patient in a hospital, it is the hospital's duty to arrange a discharge plan before you return home.
The hospital should carry out a needs assessment to assess the level of care you need will need in order to cope at home safely. Although this will be co-ordinated by a hospital social worker or care manager, your local council's social services department should also be involved.
No one should be discharged from hospital until they have had this assessment.
Any carers you have should be involved in the planning of this assessment and their needs taken into account when the hospital is assessing your needs. They are also entitled to a Carer's Assessment in their own right, which could be carried out at the same time or separately. For more information, see the Turn2us section on Help from the local council (Carers).
You remain the responsibility of the National Health Service (NHS) for six weeks after discharge, after which you become the responsibility of the local council's social services department.
If you are not assessed before leaving hospital, contact your social services department through your local council
Going into hospital, a hospice or a similar institution may affect some of the benefits you receive, including Disability Living Allowance, Attendance Allowance and Jobseekers Allowance. If someone receives Carer's Allowance because they are caring for you, this may also be affected.
Attendance Allowance, Carer's Allowance and Disability Living Allowance
If you get Attendance Allowance, Disability Living Allowance or Carer’s Allowance, your benefit may be affected if you are admitted to hospital, a hospice or a similar institution.
Adult getting Attendance Allowance or Disability Living Allowance
After four weeks
Attendance Allowance is not payable from the payday following your 28th day in a hospital, hospice or a similar institution. .
If you're over 16 and getting Disability Living Allowance, payments are suspended from the payday following your 28th day in a hospital, hospice or a similar institution.
Your partner is admitted to hospital
If you are getting Attendance Allowance or Disability Living Allowance, these are not affected if your partner is admitted to hospital.
Child getting Disability Living Allowance
If the patient is under 16 and getting Disability Living Allowance, payments will not be affected by going into hospital.
If the child has gone into hospital before their 16th birthday, they cannot claim Personal Independence Payment until they are discharged. Their Disability Living Allowance will be paid until they are discharged.
Other Information
If someone is receiving Carer's Allowance because they are caring for you, they must also tell the Disability and Carers Service that you have gone into hospital.
Carer’s Allowance
Payment of Carer's Allowance can continue for a period of up to 12 weeks if the Carer's Allowance customer or the person being looked after is admitted to hospital.
If the person being looked after is admitted to hospital for a short period, Carer's Allowance will be paid for the same period that Attendance Allowance or Disability Living Allowance care component is paid, as long as hospitalisation of either the carer or the person being looked after has not exceeded 12 weeks in the last 26 weeks. Holidays or respite care of up to four weeks will affect the 12 week rule.
If the person being looked after is a child under 18 and admitted to hospital, Carer's Allowance will continue to be paid as Personal Independence Payment or Disability Living Allowance will be paid throughout the child's stay in hospital.
If the admission to hospital is permanent at the outset, payment of Carer's Allowance will be suspended from the next payday.
If either the Carer's Allowance customer or the person being looked after are admitted to hospital, you must contact Disability and Carer's Serviceimmediately.
An increase for an adult dependent or child dependant(s) may be affected by a hospital admission. The carer should tell Disability and Carers Service of the change.
Carer's Allowance can only be paid when caring for someone who continues to receive Personal Independence Payment, Attendance Allowance, Disability Living Allowance or Constant Attendance Allowance.
Personal Independence Payment
If you're aged under 18
If you're under 18 years old you can be paid from the date of the claim if you are not entitled to Disability Living Allowance, make a claim for Personal Independence Payment and are awarded Personal Independence Payment whilst in hospital or a similar institution.
If you are getting Personal Independence Payment and are admitted to hospital or a similar institution before your 18th birthday, you will continue to be paid Personal Independence Payment while you are in hospital, regardless of your age.
You must still contact the PIP Enquiry Line to report hospital admission dates and discharge dates.
If you're aged 18 or over
If you're in hospital or a similar institution at the date of entitlement (having been admitted before that date), Personal Independence Payment is not payable until the date of discharge.
If your first day in hospital or a similar institution is the date of entitlement, you will receive Personal Independence Payment for the first 28 days.
If you are getting Personal Independence Payment and then admitted to hospital, Personal Independence Payment is not payable after 28 days in hospital or a similar institution.
You must contact the PIP Enquiry Line if you go into hospital or a similar institution.
If you are a War Pensioner the decision whether Constant Attendance Allowance should continue after four weeks rests with the Veterans Agency.
If you qualify for Exceptionally Severe Disablement Allowance as well as Constant Attendance Allowance, the weekly rate of Exceptionally Severe Disablement Allowance is not affected by a period of hospital in-patient treatment.
You should always tell the Industrial Injuries Branch or the Service Personnel and Veterans Agency if your circumstances change. For example, if:
you go into or come out of hospital
your spouse or civil partner goes into hospital (if you get extra money for them)
If another person is receiving Carer's Allowance because they are caring for the person with disabilities they must also tell Disability and Carer's Service that the person with disabilities has gone into hospital because payment of Carer's Allowance will also be affected.
If the person with disabilities is admitted to hospital for a short period, Carer's Allowance will stay in payment for the same period that Constant Attendance Allowance is in payment.
Payment of Carer's Allowance is suspended from and including the first pay day following admission to hospital of the person with disabilities if the admission is permanent at the outset.
Your partner is admitted to hospital
Constant Attendance Allowance is not affected by your partner's admission to hospital.
Housing Benefit - rent
How hospital admission affects you or your family.
Customer
Single
After 52 weeks
Housing Benefit ceases after 52 weeks or earlier if it becomes known that the customer will not be returning home, or his absence will be considerably more than 52 weeks.
Partnered
After 52 weeks
(or earlier if it is clear that the customer is not going to return home, or is going to be absent for considerably more than 52 weeks) Housing Benefit will stop and the partner has to make a separate claim.
Other Information:
If both the customer and partner are in hospital Housing Benefit will stop when the second person has been in hospital for 52 weeks.
If there are dependent children in the house, the person looking after them may be able to claim Housing Benefit and in the same way if there is a non-dependant remaining in the house, this person may be able to claim Housing Benefit. Customer should contact the Northern Ireland Housing Executive in such circumstances.
Lone Parent
After 52 weeks
(or earlier if it is clear that the customer is not going to return home, or is going to be absent for considerably more than 52 weeks)
Housing Benefit would normally stop but if there are dependent children in the house, the person looking after them may be able to claim Housing Benefit and in the same way if there is a non-dependent remaining in the house this person may be able to claim Housing Benefit. Customers should contact the Northern Ireland Housing Executive in such circumstances.
Partner
After 52 weeks
(or earlier if it is clear that the customer is not going to return home, or is going to be absent for considerably more than 52 weeks)
The partner is excluded from the assessment.
If both the customer and partner have been in hospital for over 52 weeks Housing Benefit would normally stop but if there are dependent children in the house, the person looking after them may be able to claim Housing Benefit and in the same way if there is a non-dependent remaining in the house this person may be able to claim Housing Benefit. Customers should contact the Northern Ireland Housing Executive in such circumstances.
Dependent Child
After 52 weeks
(or earlier if it is clear that the child is not going to return home, or is going to be absent for considerably more than 52 weeks)
The child is excluded from the Housing Benefit assessment.
How hospital admission affects you or your family if you are claiming Housing Benefit or Rates rebate.
Customers and their families
Customers can, in certain circumstances, get Housing Benefit while temporarily absent from their home because of a stay in hospital, or because they are receiving medically approved (in writing, by a GP, nurse or similar) care.
Housing Benefit may continue for a period of up to 52 weeks as long as the claimant intends to return to their normal home within 52 weeks.
There are additional conditions:
the claimant must still be liable for rates on their normal home
the part of the home the claimant normally occupies must not be let or sublet
the claimant must provide the authority with the information and evidence needed for the claim to continue during the period of absence
Income Support, Jobseeker's Allowance (Income based), Employment and Support Allowance
How hospital admission affects you or your family.
Jobseeker's Allowance (Income based)
Single
Immediately:
As the customer is sick and is not available for work they cannot claim Jobseeker's Allowance and need to claim Employment and Support Allowance.
This will not apply if the customer is able to take advantage of the terms which apply to short periods of sickness whilst on Jobseeker's Allowance.
A person may continue to receive Jobseeker's Allowance for two periods of sickness of not more than two weeks long in a jobseeking period, or in a 12 month period where the jobseeking period exceeds 12 months. As well as this, claimants can also have one extended period of sickness of up to 13 weeks.
In these cases payment could continue for not more than two weeks or 13 weeks whilst the customer is in hospital.
Benefits for dependent children and the Family Premium may continue for as long as the patient is treated as a lone parent. Housing costs are met if the dependent children still live at home.
Income Support
Single customer/lone parent
After 4 weeks Severe Disability Premium is withdrawn as there is no longer any entitlement to Attendance Allowance / Disability Living Allowance care component.
After 52 weeks housing costs and other premiums are withdrawn
Couples
After four week Severe Disability Premium is withdrawn as there is no longer any entitlement to Attendance Allowance / Disability Living Allowance care component.
After 52 weeks the absence may be considered as permanent and you may no longer be treated as members of the same household.
Employment and Support Allowance
After four weeks Severe Disability Premium is withdrawn, or reduced.
After 52 weeks premiums and the work-related or support components are withdrawn.
If a member of a couple has been in hospital for 52 weeks and the hospitalisation is deemed permanent the customer and partner must claim separately as they are no longer treated as members of the same household. The member of the couple in hospital is awarded the full personal allowance rate.
If the hospitalisation is deemed temporary the couple's benefit remains in payment at the full rate.
Jobseeker's Allowance (contribution based)
How hospital admission affects you when you are claiming Jobseeker's Allowance (Contribution based).
Customer
Jobseeker's Allowance (Contribution based) will normally stop immediately the customer is admitted into hospital as they can no longer be considered as available for and actively seeking work. The customer should claim Employment and Support Allowance.
This will not apply if the customer is able to take advantage of the rules which apply to short periods of sickness whilst on Jobseeker's Allowance.
A person may continue to receive Jobseeker's Allowance for two periods of sickness of not more than two weeks long in a jobseeking period, or in a 12 month period where the jobseeking period exceeds 12 months. As well as this, claimants can also have one extended period of sickness of up to 13 weeks.
In these cases payment could continue for not more than two weeks or 13 weeks whilst the customer is in hospital.
How hospital admission affects you or your family if you are receiving War Pension.
Customer
Immediately: Because of the many discretionary areas within the War Pension Scheme, each case is treated on its individual merits.
Contact:
The War Pensions Agency should be notified immediately, when a customer is admitted to hospital.
War Pensions Agency Norcross Blackpool FY5 3WP
Partner
Immediately: Because of the many discretionary areas within the War Pension Scheme, each case is treated on its individual merits.
The customer should contact the War Pensions Agency immediately, if their partner is admitted to hospital.
War Pensions Agency Norcross Blackpool FY5 3WP
Dependent Child
Immediately: Because of the many discretionary areas within the War Pension Scheme, each case is treated on its individual merits.
Contact:
The customer should contact the War Pensions Agency immediately, if a dependent child is admitted to hospital.
War Pensions Agency Norcross Blackpool FY5 3WP
Pension Credit
How hospital admission affects you when you are claiming Pension Credit.
Customer
After four weeks:
Extra Amount for Severely Disabled is withdrawn as there is no longer any entitlement to Attendance Allowance or Disability Living Allowance care component.
Couple claims
After 52 weeks the absence may be considered as permanent and you may no longer be treated as members of the same household.
Customer getting Carer’s Allowance
Payment of Carer's Allowance can continue for a period of up to 12 weeks if the Carer's Allowance customer or the person being looked after is admitted to hospital.
Eight weeks after entitlement to Carer's Allowance ends Guarantee Credit is recalculated to remove the extra amount for carers being paid in respect of the inpatient.
State Pension
State Pension is not affected by being in hospital, even if you stay in hospital for longer than 52 weeks.
Expecting some life changed soon due too fact my wife Enid is in hospital due to stomach wounds infected since Wednesday last week .She has had three operations so far to remove infected skin and have a vacuum dressing out on.Possible may need to go to a nursing home for respite care for a couple of weeks or a couple days a week .It's the lonely feeling inside i find the hardest to deal with and empty space and quietness ,I dealing with the situation by living day by day .Today Tuesday 3 April 2018 is when I should know what is going to happen i feel edgy.let's hope for the best case scenario.
Winnie Madikizela-MandelaOLS (born Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela; 26 September 1936 [1] – 2 April 2018 [2]), commonly known as Winnie Mandela, was a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician. She held several government positions, including as Deputy Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology. A member of the African National Congress(ANC) party, she served on the ANC’s National Executive Committee and headed its Women's League.
Born to a Xhosa family in Bizana, in the then Union of South Africa, she studied social work at the Jan Hofmeyr School. In 1958, she married anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg; they remained married for 38 years and had two children together. In 1963, Mandela was imprisoned following the Rivonia Trial; where she became his public face during the 27 years he spent in jail. During that period, she rose to prominence within the domestic anti-apartheid movement. She was arrested and detained by state security services on various occasions and spent several months in solitary confinement.
In the 1980s, when she was based in Soweto, Madikizela-Mandela endorsed violent behaviour; including necklacing against alleged police informers and collaborators with the National Party government. Her security detail, known as the Mandela United Football Club, carried out a number of these actions, including the kidnapping, torture, and murder of such individuals, most notoriously the teenager Stompie Moeketsi. Nelson Mandela was released from prison on 11 February 1990, and the couple separated in 1992; their divorce was finalised in March 1996. They remained in contact, and she visited him when he was ill in later life.[3] As a senior ANC figure, she took part in the post-apartheid ANC government, although was dismissed from her post amid allegations of corruption. The Truth and Reconciliation Commissionestablished by Mandela’s government to investigate human rights abuses revealed many of her violent activities during the 1980s. In 2003, she was convicted of theft and fraud. She temporarily retreated from active political involvement, returning several years later.
Madikizela-Mandela retained some popular support within the ANC and was known to her supporters as the "Mother of the Nation". During the apartheid era, she was offered academic honours abroad. She was reviled by others for having personally been responsible for the murder, torture, abduction, and assault of numerous men, women, and children, as well as indirectly being responsible for even more such crimes.[4] Although branded by followers as "a revolutionary and heroic figure...it doesn’t take that much digging to remember the truly awful things she has been responsible for.”[5]
Her Xhosa name is Nomzamo ("She who tries"). She was born in the village of eMbongweni,[6]Bizana, Pondoland, in what is now the Eastern Cape Province. She was the fourth of eight children, which consisted of seven sisters and a brother. Her parents, Columbus and Gertrude, were both teachers. Columbus was a history teacher and a headmaster, and Gertrude was a domestic science teacher. Gertrude died when Winnie was nine years old, resulting in the break-up of her family as all the siblings were sent to live with different relatives. Madikizela-Mandela went on to become the head girl at her high school in Bizana. After she matriculated, she went to Johannesburg to study social work at the Jan Hofmeyr School, despite restrictions on the education of blacks during the apartheid era.[7] She earned her degree in social work in 1956, and several years later earned a bachelor's degree in international relations from the University of Witwatersrand. She held a number of jobs in various parts of what was then the Bantustan of Transkei; including with the Transkei government, living at various points of time at Bizana, Shawbury and Johannesburg. Her first job was as a social worker at Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto.[8]
She met lawyer and anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela in 1957, when he was still in a failing marriage with Evelyn Mase.[9] She was twenty-two years old and standing at a bus stop in Soweto when Mandela first saw her and charmed her, securing a lunch date the following week.[3] They got married in 1958 and had two daughters, Zenani (born 1958) and Zindziwa (born 1960). Her husband was arrested and jailed in 1963, but would not be released until 1990. The couple separated in 1992 and she lived apart from Mandela whilst she was First Lady. They finalised the divorce in March 1996 with an unspecified out-of-court settlement. Her attempt to obtain a settlement up to US$5million (R70 million) - half of what she claimed her ex-husband was worth - was dismissed when she failed to appear in court for a settlement hearing.[10] When asked about the possibility of reconciliation in a 1994 interview, Winnie said: "I am not fighting to be the country's First Lady. In fact, I am not the sort of person to carry beautiful flowers and be an ornament to everyone."[11]
Due to her political activities, Winnie was regularly detained by the National Party government. She was tortured, subjected to house arrest, kept under surveillance, held in solitary confinement for over a year and even banished to a remote town.[3] She emerged as a leading opponent of apartheid during the later years of her husband's imprisonment (August 1963 – February 1990). For many of those years, she was exiled to the town of Brandfort in the Orange Free State and confined to the area, except for when she was allowed to visit her husband at Robben Island. Beginning in 1969, she spent eighteen months in solitary confinement at Pretoria Central Prison.[12] It was at this time that Winnie Mandela became well known in the Western world. She organised local clinics, campaigned actively for equal rights and was promoted by the ANC as a symbol of their struggle against apartheid.[13] In a leaked letter to Jacob Zuma in October 2008, outgoing President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki alluded to the role the ANC had created for her in their anti-apartheid activism:
In the context of the global struggle for the release of political prisoners in our country, our movement took a deliberate decision to profile Nelson Mandela as the representative personality of these prisoners, and therefore to use his personal political biography, including the persecution of his then wife, Winnie Mandela, dramatically to present to the world and the South African community the brutality of the apartheid system.[14]
Criminal convictions and findings of criminal behaviourEdit
Her reputation was damaged by such rhetoric as that displayed in a speech she gave in Munsieville on 13 April 1986, where she endorsed the practice of necklacing (burning people alive using tyres and petrol) by saying: "With our boxes of matches and our necklaces we shall liberate this country."[17] Further tarnishing her reputation were accusations by her bodyguard, Jerry Musivuzi Richardson, that she had ordered kidnapping and murder.[18] On 29 December 1988, Richardson, who was coach of the so-called Mandela United Football Club (MUFC), which acted as Mrs. Mandela's personal security detail, abducted 14-year-old James Seipei (also known as Stompie Moeketsi) and three other youths from the home of a Methodist minister, Rev. Paul Verryn, claiming she had the youths taken to her home because she suspected the reverend was sexually abusing them. The four were beaten to get them to admit to having had sex with the minister. Seipei was accused of being an informer, and his body later found in a field with stab wounds to the throat on 6 January 1989.[19][20]
In 1991, she was acquitted of all but the kidnapping.[3] Her six-year jail sentence was reduced to a fine on appeal. The final report of the South African Truth and Reconciliation commission, issued in 1998, found "Ms Winnie Madikizela Mandela politically and morally accountable for the gross violations of human rights committed by the MUFC" and that she "was responsible, by omission, for the commission of gross violations of human rights."[4] In 1992, she was accused of ordering the murder of Dr. Abu-Baker Asvat, a family friend who had examined Seipei at Mandela's house, after Seipei had been abducted but before he had been killed.[21] Mandela's role was later probed as part of the Truth and Reconciliation Commissionhearings, in 1997.[22] She was said to have paid the equivalent of $8,000 and supplied the firearm used in the killing, which took place on 27 January 1989.[23] The hearings were later adjourned amid claims that witnesses were being intimidated on Winnie Mandela's orders.[24]
Winnie Mandela with Nelson Mandela, Alberto Chissano and his daughter Cidalia in Museu Galeria Chissano, Mozambique, 1990
During South Africa's transition to multi-racial democracy, she adopted a far less conciliatory attitude than her husband did towards the White community. Despite being on her husband's arm when he was released in February 1990, notable for being the first time the couple had been seen in public for nearly thirty years, the Mandelas' 38-year marriage ended when they split up in April 1992 after it was revealed she had been unfaithful to her husband during his imprisonment. Their divorce was finalised in March 1996. She then adopted the surname "Madikizela-Mandela". Appointed Deputy Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology in May 1994, she was dismissed eleven months later following allegations of corruption.[25]
She remained extremely popular amongst many ANC supporters, however. In December 1993 and April 1997, she was elected president of the ANC Women's League, although she withdrew her candidacy for ANC Deputy President at the movement's Mafikeng conference in December 1997. Earlier in 1997, she appeared before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Archbishop Desmond Tutu as chairman of the commission recognised her importance in the anti-apartheid struggle, but exhorted her to apologise and to admit her mistakes. In a guarded response, she admitted "things went horribly wrong".[26]
On 24 April 2003, Winnie Mandela was convicted on 43 counts of fraud and 25 of theft, and her broker, Addy Moolman, was convicted on 58 counts of fraud and 25 of theft. Both had pleaded not guilty. The charges related to money taken from loan applicants' accounts for a funeral fund, but from which the applicants did not benefit. Madikizela-Mandela was sentenced to five years in prison.[27] Shortly after the conviction, she resigned from all leadership positions in the ANC, including her parliamentary seat and the presidency of the ANC Women's League.[28] In July 2004, an appeal judge of the PretoriaHigh Court ruled that "the crimes were not committed for personal gain". The judge overturned the conviction for theft, but upheld the one for fraud, handing her a three years and six months suspended sentence.[29]
In June 2007, the Canadian High Commission in South Africa declined to grant Winnie Mandela a visa to travel to Toronto, Canada, where she was scheduled to attend a gala fundraising concert organised by arts organisation MusicaNoir, which included the world premiere of The Passion of Winnie, an opera based on her life.[30]
Madikizela-Mandela criticised the anti-immigrant violence in May–June 2008 that began in Johannesburg and spread throughout the country, and blamed the government's lack of suitable housing provisions for the sentiments behind the riots.[33] She apologised to the victims of the riots[34] and visited the Alexandra township. She offered her home as shelter for an immigrant family from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She warned that the perpetrators of the violence could strike at the Gauteng train system.[35]
Madikizela-Mandela secured fifth place on the ANC's electoral list for the 2009 general election, behind party president and immediate former President of South Africa Jacob Zuma, former President of South Africa Kgalema Motlanthe, Deputy President of South AfricaBaleka Mbete, and Finance Minister Trevor Manuel. An article in The Observer suggested her position near the top of the list indicated that the party's leadership saw her as a valuable asset in the election with regard to solidifying support among the party's grassroots and the poor.[36]
In 2010, Madikizela-Mandela was interviewed by Nadira Naipaul. In the interview, she attacked her ex-husband, claiming that he had "let blacks down", that he was only "wheeled out to collect money", and that he is "nothing more than a foundation". She further attacked his decision to accept the Nobel Peace Prize with FW De Klerk. Among other things, she reportedly claimed Mandela was no longer "accessible" to her daughters. She referred to Archbishop Tutu, in his capacity as the head of the Truth and Reconciliation commission, as a "cretin".[37]
The interview attracted media attention,[38][39] and the ANC announced that it would ask her to explain her comments regarding Nelson Mandela.[40] On 14 March 2010, a statement was issued on behalf of Winnie Mandela claiming that the interview was a fabrication.[41]
Tina Lifford played her in the 1997 TV film Mandela and de Klerk. Sophie Okonedo portrayed her in the BBC drama Mrs Mandela, first broadcast on BBC Four on 25 January 2010.[42]Jennifer Hudson played her in Winnie Mandela, directed by Darrell Roodt, released in Canada by D Films on 16 September 2011. Roodt, Andre Pieterse, and Paul L. Johnson based the film's script on Anne Marie du Preez Bezdrob's biography, Winnie Mandela: A Life.[43] The Creative Workers Union of South Africa opposed the choice of Hudson in the title role, saying the use of foreign actors to tell the country's stories undermined efforts to develop the national film industry.[44][45]
Mandela was again portrayed in the 2013 film Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom by actress Naomie Harris (British actor Idris Elba played Nelson Mandela). On viewing the film, Madikizela-Mandela told Harris it was "the first time she felt her story had been captured on film". Gugulethu okaMseleku, writing in The Guardian, stated that the film had returned Winnie Mandela to her rightful place, recognising her role in "the struggle" that, "for South African women… was more fundamental than her husband's."[46]
In January 2018, the University Council and University Senate of Makerere University,Kampala, Uganda, approved award of an honorary Doctor of Laws(LLD) degree to Winnie Nomzano Madikizela-Mandela, in recognition of her fight against apartheid in South Africa.[47][48]
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela died at the Netcare Milpark Hospital in Johannesburg‚ South Africa on April 2, 2018. Her death was confirmed by her personal assistant, Zodwa Zwane. The cause of her death was a “long-term illness”, according to her family. The USA Magazine reported: "Mandela was admitted to the Netcare Milpark Hospital in Johannesburg over the weekend after complaining of the flu. Her spokesperson said in a statement to the state broadcaster that the politician - who also suffered from diabetes and recently underwent several major surgeries, 'had been in and out of hospital since the start of the year.'"[2]
^"Nomzamo Nobandla Winnifred MADIKIZELA-MANDELA". African National Congress. Archived from the original on 14 March 2012. Retrieved 24 January 2010. In 1969, she became one of the first detainees under Section 6 of the notorious Terrorism Act. She was detained for eighteen months in solitary confinement in the condemned cell at Pretoria Central Prison before being charged under the Suppression of Communism Act 1950.
