And somewhere else, someone asked why certain African leaders are reviled and hated by the West, while others are elevated. Winnie Mandela epitomises this divide and rule, pick and choose our heroes and heroines for us attitude. That piece by the Economist is mean and divisive. I reject it, and I salute her and indeed, the role she played in keeping Nelson Mandela alive in the world's conscience.
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"Despite his devotion to the courageous Winnie—in his 1994 autobiography he would publish for the first time some of the poignant letters he had written to her from Robben Island—the second marriage also failed. Winnie suffered almost all the blows that apartheid had in its arsenal: banishment, imprisonment, remorseless harassment. But suffering did not ennoble her: just the opposite, and in the end she did her utmost to humiliate her husband. He was wounded, but also guilt-ridden, conscious of his failings with his wives and his children. Not until he married a wary Graça Machel, widow of Mozambique's first president, on his 80th birthday did Mr Mandela find enduring wedded fulfilment."
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