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Winnie died on Monday afternoon at a Johannesburg hospital surrounded by her loved ones, Victor Dlamini said in a statement.

Winnie, commonly referred to as the mother of "new" South Africa, had been admitted to Milpark Hospital in Johannesburg with a kidney infection, and was in and out of hospital in the lead-up to her death, enca reported.

Mr Dlamini said: "She died after a long illness, for which she had been in and out of hospital since the start of the year.

"She succumbed peacefully in the early hours of Monday afternoon surrounded by her family and loved ones."

Winnie, who was married to South Africa's first black president, worked as an activist and a politician even when he was arrested for 27 years.

She campaigned tirelessly for his release and for the rights of black South Africans, suffering years of detention, banishment and arrest by the white authorities.

But her own campaigns against the apartheid regime led to her being imprisoned for months and years under house arrest.

After his release from prison in 1990, the couple's marriage began to fall apart, until they divorced in 1996.

The pair who had two children together, maintained close ties and she kept his surname.

In 1991, her political activism was marred by a kidnapping and assault conviction, for which she was fined.

She faced these allegations again during the 1997 hearings before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a panel that investigated apartheid-era crimes.

As a parliamentarian after South Africa's first all-race elections, she was convicted of fraud. Still, she was widely venerated in South Africa for her role in fighting white minority rule.

Tributes have been pouring in for the "Mother of South Africa" from A-listers and politicians alike.

Nathi Mthethwa, South Africa's Minister of Police tweeted: "We're devastated to learn the news of the passing of the Mother of our nation, a great architect of our liberation struggle, 'iqhawe lamaqhawe u' Mama #WinnieMandela.

"In our darkest hour she illuminated the very soul of our nation through her tireless commitment to freedom & justice."

Actor Idris Elba, who played Nelson Mandela in film, Long Walk to Freedom, tweeted: "Rest in peace Mama Winnie.

"My heart is heavy right now. You lived a full and important life contributing to the liberation of a nation by force and ACTUAL ACTIVISM.




When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own house, his possessions are undisturbed. Luke 11:21


"Every nation in every region now has a decision to make.
Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists." -- George W. Bush

 
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Funny, no mention of this from 1989 in that story...


Anti-Apartheid Groups Cast Out Winnie Mandela, Citing Terror

https://www.nytimes.com/1989/0...a-citing-terror.html

Winnie Mandela was effectively cast out today by the anti-apartheid movement to which she and her husband, Nelson Mandela, have devoted their lives.

The announcement by the movement's leadership, distancing itself from her activities and asking its supporters to do the same, was made as the police pressed an investigation into the killing of a 14-year-old youth whom Mrs. Mandela's bodyguards are accused of abducting.

At a news conference, Murphy Morobe, the publicity secretary of the United Democratic Front, the country's major legal anti-apartheid organization, read a statement accusing the bodyguards of mounting a ''reign of terror'' in Soweto leading up to the killing and blaming Mrs. Mandela for creating them.

It was not known how Nelson Mandela, who has been in prison for 26 years, felt about the repudiation of his wife. But it seemed unlikely that the action would have been taken unless Mr. Mandela's lawyers had warned him and sought his tacit assent for the sake of the anti-apartheid movement. Rumors About a Divorce

Today's announcement fed rumors among blacks that Mr. Mandela might contemplate a divorce in the interest of the struggle, particularly if Mrs. Mandela became the subject of criminal prosecution. She visited her husband in Cape Town on Wednesday.

The body of the youth, Stompie Moeketsi, was positively identified on Wednesday. He was among four youths reportedly abducted in December by the Mandela United Football Club, a group of about 30 young men acting as Mrs. Mandela's bodyguards.

''We are outraged at Mrs. Mandela's complicity in the recent abductions of Stompie,'' Mr. Morobe said. ''Had Stompie and his three colleagues not been abducted by Mrs. Mandela's 'football team,' he would have been alive today.''

Mrs. Mandela's increasingly erratic behavior has not dampened public admiration for her husband, whose image has assumed almost mythic dimensions during his years in prison. But the leadership seemed anxious today not to erode his accumulated prestige.

''We take the opportunity to reaffirm our unqualified support for our leader Nelson Mandela and call for his immediate release,'' Mr. Morobe said.

This evening, the state-run South African television reported that the police were investigating the disappearance of two other young men believed linked to the soccer team, including a claim that Mrs. Mandela was present when one, Lolo Corlett Sono, 21 years old, was taken from his home by her bodyguards and accused of being a police informer. The other man, Sibonise Anton Tshabalala, 20, was summoned to Mrs. Mandela's home and was not seen again, the television news reported. Bodyguards Anger Residents

The friction between the soccer club and local youths is rooted in the political climate of Soweto. The club members refused to be accountable to the alternative power structures created for the struggle against apartheid and incurred the hostility of residents by throwing their weight around.

Mr. Morobe was flanked at the news conference today by Archie Gumede, president of the United Democratic Front, which represents some 700 affiliated groups, and Elijah Barayi, president of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, which claims 800,000 mostly black members. The two groups form the backbone of the open struggle against apartheid in South Africa.

The effect of the decision, which Mr. Morobe said had been considered for some time, was to drop Mrs. Mandela from the common struggle against apartheid and increase her isolation in the black community. It has also left her more dependent for safety and companionship on her soccer team, which the exiled African National Congress, to which Nelson Mandela belongs, had been urging her to disband.

The announcement today stressed that unhappiness with Mrs. Mandela had predated the scandal in which she is now embroiled.

''We are of the view that Mrs. Mandela has abused the trust and confidence which she has enjoyed over the years,'' Mr. Morobe said. ''She has often acted without consulting the democratic movement. Often, her practices have violated the spirit and ethics of the democratic movement.'' Outrage Over 'Reign of Terror'

His statement took note of the public resentment that had been building in Soweto over Mrs. Mandela's unaccountability and the bullying behavior of her soccer team.

''In recent years, Mrs. Mandela's actions have increasingly led her into conflict with various sections of the oppressed people and with the mass democratic movement as a whole,'' he said. ''The recent conflict in the community has centered larely around the conduct of her so-called football club, which has been widely condemned by the community.

''In particular, we are outraged by the reign of terror that the team has been associated with. Not only is Mrs. Mandela associated with the team; in fact, the team is her own creation.''

But Mrs. Mandela has been the most prominent woman in the anti-apartheid struggle, and her ostracism was announced with sorrow rather than anger. ''The Mandela family has always occupied a very special position in the hearts of our people,'' Mr. Morobe said.

He observed that Mrs. Mandela had been separated from her husband for most of their married life and raised two children alone while coping with house arrest, detention and banishment by the Government'

''We pay tribute to her contribution,'' Mr. Morobe said. Mediation Efforts Noted The leadership said many efforts had been made to mediate frictions between Mrs. Mandela and Soweto residents, including the formation of a crisis committee of people respected in the anti-apartheid movement to deal with the excesses of the football club. ''On every occasion, Mrs. Mandela has refused to cooperate and has chosen to disregard the sentiments of the community,'' the statement said.

A woman who answered the phone at Mrs. Mandela's office in Soweto this afternoon said that ''she's not taking any calls.'' The woman promised to convey a request for Mrs. Mandela to return the call, but Mrs. Mandela failed to do so.

The soccer team members have been accused of abducting four young men, including Mr. Moeketsi, from the house of a Methodist minister in Soweto on the night of Dec. 28, and taking them to Mrs. Mandela's home. One youth escaped but the other three were reportedly beaten.

Two youths were released after the crisis committee intervened. Stompie Moeketsi disappeared, and Mrs. Mandela and the club members disclaimed any knowledge of his whereabouts. The police announced Wednesday that a body found early last month was that of Mr. Moeketsi, and said he had died from knife wounds in the throat.




When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own house, his possessions are undisturbed. Luke 11:21


"Every nation in every region now has a decision to make.
Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists." -- George W. Bush

 
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Or this from 2013...

The dark side of Nelson Mandela

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/ne...b4e6c799e458a55e6cb2

MUCH of the sanctimonious grieving for Nelson Mandela is not just a sin against history - but a danger.

It is true Mandela rose to greatness. Freed after 27 years in a South African jail, the anti-apartheid fighter emerged not bent on vengeance but healing.

He negotiated a peaceful end to apartheid, and as the first president of democratic South Africa, preached - and practised - reconciliation. In this he was great. A healer. An inspiration.

For many whites abroad, he seems even Christ-like - someone who'd suffered for the sins of white guilt, and absolved those who believed in him of the sin of racism.

But Mandela was no Christ nor even Gandhi nor Martin Luther King. He was for decades a man of violence. In 1961, he broke with African National Congress colleagues who preached non-violence, creating a terrorist wing.

He later pleaded guilty in court to acts of public violence, and behind bars sanctioned more, including the 1983 Church St car bomb that killed 19 people.

Mandela even suggested cutting off the noses of blacks deemed collaborators. His then wife Winnie advocated "necklacing" instead - a burning tyre around the neck.

Mandela argued the apartheid regime left him no option but to fight violence with violence, but it is too easy to claim events proved him right. His legacy is not yet played out.

Current president Jacob Zuma until recently still publicly sang the anti-apartheid song, Shoot the Boer, in a still-divided country where many white farmers have been shot.

Mandela's support for other leaders of violence is even less forgivable. He maintained close ties to Cuban dictator Fidel Castro and backed Palestinian terrorist leader Yasser Arafat. As president in 1997, he gave his country's highest award for a foreigner to Libya's dictator, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who'd donated $10 million to the ANC. He gave the same award to the corrupt Indonesian president Suharto, who he said had donated $60 million.

He supported Nigerian coup leader Sani Abacha, refusing to say a word publicly to stop the 1995 hanging of activist Ken Saro-Wiwa.


I repeat, Mandela did great things. But many of his more radical supporters in the West now use that greatness to wash clean his record of political violence - and his support for dictators who'd used it.

That is dangerous.



When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own house, his possessions are undisturbed. Luke 11:21


"Every nation in every region now has a decision to make.
Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists." -- George W. Bush

 
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Hmmm about time that murduring, communist, racist, piece of shit finally got the fuck off this planet. She should have died years ago. Fucking commie whore. Another Hillary.




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Ah, yes- the Mandela's. Their legacy of peace and prosperity lives on to this very day...




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Someone should have necklaced her.




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Riddle me this: are the Mandelas the Clintons of South Africa, or are the Clintons the Mandelas of America?
 
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So sad, she's going to miss out on the free farms, endless money and impending slaughter. She led the RSA to get where it is today and no Winnie to reap the rewards. It's not fair.




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I am vaguely familiar with her name, she is a blip on my radar. But some reader's posts on yahoo are funny:

Did a house land on her?

She and Maxine Waters must have had the same Ethics Professor.

Guess the market for used tires in South Africa will be going down.

History will remember Nelson Mandela as a great man. Winnie, not so much so

I'm sure the Obama's will be at the funeral...hopefully they will use the same sign language interpreter as Nelson's funeral...

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