Mandela let us down, says Winnie <http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=6&art_id=iol1268110314 283W522#comment_bottom_box> March 09 2010 at 07:32AM Get IOL on your mobile at m.iol.co.za <http://www.iolmobile.co.za/> By Colin Fernandez
Nelson Mandela has been accused by his former wife of betraying South
Africa's black population.
In a savage attack, Winnie Mandela said he had done nothing for the poor
and should not have accepted the Nobel peace prize with the man who
jailed him, FW de Klerk.
The 73-year-old said her ex-husband had become a "corporate foundation"
who was "wheeled out" only to raise money for the ANC party he once led.
She said Archbishop Desmond Tutu was a "cretin" and claimed the
sacrifices of Steve Biko and others in the fight against apartheid were
being overlooked.
The comments were apparently made in an interview on Monday with Nadira
Naipaul, the wife of novelist V S Naipaul.
Mrs Mandela became notorious in 1991 when she was jailed for six years
for the kidnap of Stompie Moeketsi - a sentence later cut to a fine.
Stompie, 14, had been murdered three years earlier by members of Mrs
Mandela's bodyguard, the Mandela United Football Club.
She also caused outrage by endorsing the punishment of apartheid
collaborators with "necklacing" - putting burning tyres around their
necks.
On Monday she said: "This name Mandela is an albatross around the necks
of my family.
"You all must realise that Mandela was not the only man who suffered.
There were many others, hundreds who languished in prison and died.
"Mandela did go to prison and he went in there as a young revolutionary
but look what came out.
"Mandela let us down. He agreed to a bad deal for the blacks.
Economically we are still on the outside. The economy is very much
'white'.
"I cannot forgive him for going to receive the Nobel with his jailer De
Klerk. Hand in hand they went. Do you think De Klerk released him from
the goodness of his heart?
"He had to. The times dictated it, the world had changed."
The Mandelas, who divorced in 1996, were married for 38 years - although
together for only five.
Mrs Mandela criticised her country's Truth and Reconciliation Committee
- which she appeared before in 1997 and which implicated her in gross
violations of human rights.
She said: "What good does the truth do? How does it help to anyone to
know where and how their loved ones are killed or buried?
"That Bishop Tutu who turned it all into a religious circus came here.
He had a cheek to tell me to appear.
"I told him that he and his other like-minded cretins were only sitting
there because of our struggle and me. Look what they make him do. The
great Mandela. He has no control or say any more.
"They put that huge statue of him right in the middle of the most
affluent white area of Johannesburg. Not here (in Soweto) where we
spilled our blood.
"Mandela is now like a corporate foundation. He is wheeled out globally
to collect the money."
She said her daughters, Zenani, 51, and Zindzi, 50, had to struggle
through red tape to speak to their 91-year-old father, who led South
Africa from 1994 to 1999. - Daily Mail
17 Minutes ago Desmond Cape Town wrote :
Mama Winnie, even if the timing is out (because commentators would know
say that with the world cup around the corner) we shouldn't address
issues. Life doesn't stop because of some event. The lives of the poor
has been on hold since the Nats and others took control. Winnie is right
in saying that former President Mandela are being milked by his
foundations and yes if they had negotiated a better deal for the
majority of the people (Black) then this would've been a different
country. We neede socio-economic freedom and not only political from the
oppressors. My 5c worth in response to Winnie is that the negotiating
team with Pres Mandela sold us out. Our struggles were for nothing and
we still have our predominantly townships with no wealth sharing in
sight.
Winnie Mandela has slammed her ex-husband - saying that Nelson Mandela
has done nothing for the poor. Photo: AFP
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