WINNIE Madikizela-Mandela has long been South Africa’s larger-than-life apartheid heroine, dubbed the “Mother of the Nation.”

Young Aids fighter Nkosi Johnson has been buried in South Africa after a week of mourning.

Nkosi Johnson, a boy born with HIV who became an outspoken champion of others infected with the Aids virus, died today of the disease he battled for all 12 of his years.