Comrades, I agree with you. She raises revolutionary questions and concerns however I am not if it was correct of her to raise it in the media let alone in the land of the imperialists! I believe she was out of line.
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:05 AM, NT Zwane <[email protected]> wrote: > > AMANDLA MAMA WINNIE > > > Quoting Sandile Ngcobo <[email protected]>: > > I've been waiting for years for someone amongst the leadership to say this; >> Mandela was not alone though, it's was a collective decision. >> >> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Sithembewena tsembeyi >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >> Winnie says Mandela let us down 09 March 2010 >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> >>> >>> Winnie Madikizela-Mandela >>> Mandela is now a corporate foundation >>> Mandela did go to prison and he went in there as a burning young >>> revolutionary. But look what came out >>> Maybe we have to go back to the drawing board and see where it all went >>> >>> 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. >>> >>> "He agreed to a bad deal for the blacks. Economically, we are still on >>> the >>> outside. >>> >>> "The economy is very much 'white'. It has a few token blacks, but so many >>> who gave their life in the struggle have died >>> >>> unrewarded," said Madikizela-Mandela, in the interview published on >>> www.standard.co.uk. >>> >>> She said Mandela had no control over the ANC anymore and was just being >>> used by the Nelson Mandela Foundation to get funds. >>> >>> "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 where we spilled our >>> blood >>> and where it all started. >>> >>> "Mandela is now a corporate foundation. He is wheeled out globally to >>> collect the money and he is content doing that. The ANC have effectively >>> sidelined him but they keep him as a figurehead for the sake of >>> appearance." >>> >>> Madikizela-Mandela said Mandela was not the only leader who suffered. >>> >>> "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. >>> >>> "Many unsung and unknown heroes of the struggle, and there were others in >>> the leadership too, like poor Steve Biko, who died of the beatings, >>> horribly >>> all alone. >>> >>> "Mandela did go to prison and he went in there as a burning young >>> revolutionary. But look what came out." >>> >>> Madikizela-Mandela criticised him for accepting the Nobel Peace Prize >>> with >>> the apartheid government's last president, FW de Klerk. >>> >>> "I cannot forgive him for going to receive the Nobel [Peace Prize in >>> 1993] >>> with his jailer [FW] 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, and our struggle was >>> not a >>> flash in the pan, it was bloody to say the least and we had given rivers >>> of >>> blood. >>> >>> "I had kept it alive with every means at my disposal." >>> >>> She also lashed out at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission process, >>> criticising Tutu, its chairman. >>> >>> "Look at this Truth and Reconciliation charade. He [Mandela] should never >>> have agreed to it. >>> >>> "What good does the truth do? How does it help anyone to know where and >>> how >>> their loved ones were killed or buried? That Bishop Tutu who turned it >>> all >>> into a religious circus came here. >>> >>> "He had the cheek to tell me to appear. I told him a few home truths. I >>> told him that he and his other like-minded cretins were only sitting here >>> because of our struggle and me. Because of the things I and people like >>> me >>> had done to get freedom." >>> >>> Looking back, she said the movement's actions were badly planned. >>> >>> "You know, sometimes I think we had not thought it all out. There was no >>> planning from our side. How could we? We were badly educated and the >>> leadership does not acknowledge that. Maybe we have to go back to the >>> drawing board and see where it all went wrong." - Sapa >>> >>> -- >>> You are subscribed. This footer can help you. >>> Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply >>> to >>> this message. >>> You can visit the group WEB SITE at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery >>> options, pages, files and membership. >>> To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email >>> [email protected]. You don't have to put >>> anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to >>> put anything in the message part. 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