South African play on Winnie Madikizela-Mandela explores black women’s enduring wait for absent men

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. The play about the late former wife of Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first Black president, is adapted from the novel “The Cry of Winnie Mandela” by Njabulo Ndebele.

It explores…