After Nelson Mandela was released from prison, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela initially shared in his political activities. In 1994 she was elected to Parliament and was appointed deputy minister of arts, culture, science, and technology in South Africa’s first multiracial government, of which he was the president, but she was expelled from his cabinet in 1995. They separated in 1992 and divorced in 1996. Madikizela-Mandela was reelected to Parliament in 1999. She resigned in 2003, after she was convicted on charges of fraud and theft, the latter of which were overturned.