A new play about anti-apartheid icon Winnie Madikizela-Mandela seeks to highlight the struggles of Black women in South Africa who had to wait years for their husbands’ return from exile, prison or faraway work during decades of white minority rule.

A new play currently running at The Market Theatre in Johannesburg revisits the life of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, offering a broader reflection on the experiences of Black South African women left to wait for absent men during apartheid.

A new play about anti-apartheid icon Winnie Madikizela-Mandela seeks to highlight the struggles of Black women in South Africa who had to wait years for their husbands’ return from exile, prison or faraway work during decades of white minority rule.