Till date, the choicest of the South African lands are securely in the hands of the whites ..., etc, etc. the whites in South Africa will always feel at home with a stereotype-black President like the current one whose hobby is acquiring more wives every year, as long as there is no threat to their hegemonic hold on the economy of South Africa. Is that all that the long struggle of Winnie and other compatriots is worth? These are what Winnie was driving at.
Today Winnie is vilified, demonized. The truth of history is that there is no preaching the Bible in a full blown struggle against injustice and crimes against fundamental human rights, particularly, when necessity compels you to take up arms in self defense, for the respect of human dignity, regardless of your color, etc., ditto the apartheid system! The treatment allegedly meted out to traitors and " informants" by her or under supervision has remained the same in most similar struggles, including the Mau-Mau struggle under the leadership of Dedan Kimathi for self rule in colonial Kenya. The issue is if Winnie was condemned, and today she is vilified for the alleged atrocities committed under her supervision, in a war situation as it were, isn't there a contradiction of logic, if the racist whites who committed much more crimes since, say 1912, or thereabout, should go free, just like that, and without a price?
To emphasize the mansion issue is to miss the point altogether! Winnie was at the centre of the struggle which made De Klerk and his cohorts to relinquish because he and other whites were no longer safe, courtesy of Winnie et al, militancy!
Ademola Dasylva
On Tuesday, December 10, 2013, La Vonda R. Staples wrote:
-- On Tuesday, December 10, 2013, La Vonda R. Staples wrote:
Brother Icky and Pere Toyinthank you for this! I saw a few comments alleged to be made by the second Mrs. Mandela today. I didn't want to believe it. I started researching and found that she even endorsed, without ambiguity, "necklacing". This article was referenced by the first thing I read (which was a wiki but since I'm a good student I only use wiki as a guide or as a beginning lit. review for my subject) and I was looking for it. Thank you for posting. I also need to find an article where she called him a "sellout" for living in a mansion. 1. She was also resident of the mansion but didn't think it was necessary to denigrate him over the residence until she was no longer mistress of the house. 2. He always maintained and lived part-time in a residence amid his people (their people). 3. Where was he supposed to live? Who could begrudge him that home? Where was he supposed to receive his many guests which included heads of state who sought advice? Could he have gotten them rooms at the Holiday Inn?If you have any more articles explaining her vitriolic stance towards him please forward. I am very curious.La Vonda--On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Ikhide <xokigbo@yahoo.com> wrote:--""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".We could believe that. The world-famous images flashed before our eyes and I am sure hers. The burning tyres - Winnie endorsed the necklacing of collaborators in a speech in 1985 ("with our boxes of matches and our necklaces we shall liberate this country") - the stoning, the bullets, the terrible deaths of "informers". Her often bloodthirsty rhetoric has marred her reputation."Look at this Truth and Reconciliation charade. He should never have agreed to it." Again her anger was focused on Mandela. "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," she said pointing to an empty chair in the distance."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.""If you have the time, please read this essay. It humanizes Winnie Mandela and situates her in a very complex situation, she is her own best advocate. Nadira is VS Naipaul's spouse. This essay is an account of Winnie Mandela's meeting with her and VS.- IkhideStalk my blog at http://www.xokigbo.com/Follow me on Twitter: @ikhideJoin me on Facebook: www.facebook.com/ikhide
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