Because the fight for freedom is not a rational exploitation account, Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Winnie Madikizela-Mandela better known as Winnie Mandela embodied until his last breath, the honors and disappointments of the camp that fought the odious system of apartheid.
His death, announced this April 2, 2018, in a South Africa liberated but in prey, now more than ever, inequality and poverty, reminds President Cyril Ramaphosa, newly elected, the many expectations of a deceived people by politicians who confuse politics and business.
Missing at the age of 81, Winnie Mandela married Nelson Mandela in 1958. The couple split in 1992 into what was a political divorce.
Unlike Mandela’s realism, Winnie embodied a more radical option. ANC activist, she will stay with her husband and support him without fail during the twenty-seven years in prison.
During the years of struggle, Winnie is associated with the famous torture of the tire of burning the supposed black traitors. The overwhelming testimonies of his accomplices before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission will definitively isolate Winnie Mandela. The one who gave so much to the struggle of apartheid thus has assumed the dark side of any revolutionary struggle.
Family and political divorce
In April 1992, Nelson Mandela announced his separation from his wife and ended their 38 years of marriage. The divorce is pronounced in March 1996.
“I was the most lonely man,” Mandela said as rumors of infidelity surrounded his ex-wife. The woman who became Madikizela-Mandela will chair the ANC women’s league from 1993 to 1997. Vice-Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology, she resigned in 1994 following accusations of corruption . It remains popular with the radical ANC base, which refuses the black government’s collaboration with white settlers.
A complex woman despite her radical speech against the whites, she shows a real sadness in the assassination of Marike de Klerk, the former wife of the last white president Frederik de Klerk, whom she described as a great friend.
In 2003, she was convicted by the South African courts of 43 charges of fraud, 25 charges of theft and sentenced to four years in prison. Recently, Winnie castigated the lifestyle of the ANC’s dignitaries: “What’s going on totally contradicts what we fought for. Now our fight is about the number of cars in the garage and the thickness of our stock portfolio in the mining industry. ” There were obviously two Winnie Mandela. History will recognize his.