Mandela Let Us Down
South African Press Association
Published Mar 10, 2010
Johannesburg - Struggle stalwart Winnie Madikizela-Mandela bitterly lashed out at Nelson Mandela in an interview published in the London Evening Standard this week.
She said South Africa's first democratically elected president, who is also her ex-husband, had become a "corporate foundation" who was being "wheeled out to collect the money".
Madikizela-Mandela also called Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu a "cretin", in the interview with Nadira Naipaul, who visited her with her husband, the writer VS Naipaul, in Soweto.
"Mandela let us down," said Madikizela-Mandela.
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Very interesting. Have you followed her life? I have never known the extent to which she was smeared. It smells like a smear. On the other hand, it's really hard to listen to criticism of Mandela and Tutu.
It is hard to listen to criticism of them if we only see what Bill Clinton and those of such sterling character, who have befriended them, invite us to see and understand. I'm sure she's done exactly what they've said she did. Positive. My thing is that although I've never been in a war fought dirty and in the streets, where the broken heartedness and bile and blood experienced while attempting to resist twists and harms in such a way she probably experienced. She kept a movement alive. She was the center of resistance. I'm sure there were all sorts of power plays and struggles at work in the ANC. I'm sure there were equal amounts of struggle happening in that jail cell, too. We'll never know for certain what happened. But I'm pretty clear that whatever happened was a lot more complex than the half truths we're being fed that both those men have participated in perpetuating. I can smell it and taste it.
Me too, with this help from you.
my favorite part was "he had the cheek to tell me to appear." ;)
go ahead, Winnie.
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