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Nelson Mandela leaves $4 million estate to family and staff , ignores ex-wife Winnie

Johannesburg : South African icon  Nelson Mandela, who died in December 2013, aged 95, has left his roughly $4.1 million estate to his wife Graca Machel, family members, staff, schools and the African National Congress,



Mandela's ex-wife, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, was not mentioned in the will. The couple divorced in 1996.

The home in Houghton, Johannesburg where Mandela died on December 5, will be used by the family of his deceased son Makgatho.

“It is my wish that it should also serve as a place of gathering of the Mandela and Machel family in order to maintain its unity long after death,” Mandela wrote.

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