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Apr 6, 2018 · In 1995, at the funeral of police officer Jabulani Xaba, who was shot by a white colleague, Madikizela-Mandela accused the ANC of failing black people by not dealing with racism in the...
t. e. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela OLS MP (born Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela; 26 September 1936 [1] – 2 April 2018), [2] also known as Winnie Mandela, was a South African anti-apartheid activist and the second wife of Nelson Mandela. She served as a Member of Parliament from 1994 to 2003, [3] and from 2009 until her death, [4] and was a ...
Sep 29, 2022 · The party was confronted with allegations of corruption when former ANC member Bantu Holomisa accused Cabinet minister Stella Sigcau, in Mandela’s government, of being “on the take” — and...
May 27, 2024 · Rund Abdelfatah and Ramtin Arablouei, co-hosts of NPR's history show Throughline, bring us a story about Mandela's early involvement with the ANC and the choices he made in his fight for...
- Drawn Into Struggle Young
- Winnie’s Independent Identity
- Unrelenting Persecution
- Torture in Solitary Confinement
- Banishment to Brandfort
- Return to Soweto
- Secret Talks and Armed Struggle
- Winnie’s Critique of Codesa Agreement
- Only Socialism Can Resolve Impasse
Winnie experienced her political baptism as personal tragedy. Pondoland, in the Eastern Cape, where she was born in 1936, formed part of the Transkei homeland headed by Kaizer Matanzima. In 1951, the apartheid regime introduced the Bantu Authorities Act. This was one of the legislative cornerstones for the construction of ethnic entities “homelands...
Winnie may have been catapulted to national and international fame through her marriage to someone who would become the world’s most famous political prisoner, Nelson, but she carved out from this political marriage her own independent political persona. Her journey into a lifetime of political activism, however, preceded her marriage to Mandela. H...
This role was thrust upon her by the callous, vengeful cruelty of a white minority regime enraged by her unbreakable will and defiance. But she embraced it as a duty imposed on her by history, doing so fearlessly, courageously and with complete devotion. Whilst Nelson was doing hard labour in the lime quarry on Robben Island, Winnie was subjected t...
In 1969 Winnie was to undergo her most harrowing experience of all. The security branch raided her Soweto home at 3am and took her away, after denying her the opportunity to ask her sister to look after her nine and ten year old daughters who were alone with her . She was detained under the Terrorism Act which allowed for indefinite detention witho...
But Winnie was not going to bow her head in the face of this latest act of repression. “When they send me into exile, it’s not me as an individual they are sending. They think that with me they can also ban the political ideas. But that is a historic impossibility… I am of no importance to them as an individual. What I stand for is what they want t...
Removed from Soweto to prevent her from fanning the flames of the youth uprising, Winnie was allowed to return in 1986, in the middle of the countrywide state of emergency the regime had declared. However, despite intensified repression, including occupations of the townships by the army, mass arrests, torture and killings, the limitations of the r...
In 1986, the ANC’s January 8 instatement declared it, “The Year of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the People’s Army”. It called for the destruction of local councils, and looked forward to ‘the gathering collapse of the apartheid economy’. The government, it said, had lost the strategic initiative and its attempts at reform were collapsing. The slogan for the ...
But there are two sides to the reality of the Codesa negotiated settlement. It was at one and the same time a triumph of the black majority in the quest for democratic rights to be full citizens in their country, as well as the successful preservation of the economic dictatorship of the capitalist class. Capitalism had been placed under new managem...
Dedicated as Winnie was to the plight of the poor, however often she visited informal settlements, however warmly she was welcomed there, and however much she suffered for the post-apartheid dispensation, and continued to suffer under it, she was a radical left nationalist rather than a socialist. Her criticisms of the betrayals of the ANC were acc...
Jul 13, 2024 · As a senior ANC figure, she took part in the post-apartheid ANC government, although she was dismissed from her post amid allegations of corruption. In 2003, Madikizela-Mandela was convicted of theft and fraud, and she temporarily withdrew from active politics before returning several years later.
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The 1980s witnessed an increase in attacks launched by the ANC through its armed MK inside South Africa. Conversely, the government responded by stepping up its attacks on neighboring states targeting mainly ANC safe houses, activists and camps.
