During the transition from Apartheid racial segregation she appeared to adopt a less conciliatory attitude than her husband toward the previously dominant white community, and their 38-year marriage ended in separation (April 1992) and divorce (March 1996). She remained popular, however, among many ANC radicals, and in 1993 she was elected president of the ANC Women's League, though she withdrew her candidacy for ANC vice-president at the movement's December 1997 Mafiking conference following further damaging revelations about the Seipei incident during the sittings of the national Truth and Reconciliation Commission headed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu.