Winnie Mandela accuses Nelson of 'betraying' the blacks of South Africa
By Colin Fernandez
Last updated at 12:34 AM on 09th March 2010Nelson 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.
Nelson Mandela and wife Winnie walk hand-in hand-with after Mandela's release from prison
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 made in an interview yesterday 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.
Party: Nelson and Winnie Mandela in 2004
She also caused outrage by endorsing the punishment of apartheid collaborators with ' necklacing' - putting burning tyres around their necks.
Yesterday 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 pair pictured together in 1990
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.
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Madame Matches and her ANC party are incrementally taking South Africa down the path to Zimbabwe. She will eventually get her wish and have a "black" economy, which means no economy ( really a typically African Marxist economy) and then we will all finally be equally poor, except for the the ANC elite who will still be living off the largess of the tax payer and driving around in their luxury vehicles. For a party that claims to hate capitalism, the ANC sure seem to enjoy the spoils of the free market. One thing is sure, the ANC is hellbent on stirring the race pot and fomenting hatred for the whites here. The only thing that happened in 1994 was that the revolution was postponed. The blood bath is on the way thanks to the hate of those like Winnie!
HEY LADY! YOUR husband was a TERRORIST! YOU knew about it! You could do a LOT more for humanity and history by telling us more about the facts, ma'am. We all know now that the Nobel prize is a farce.
The lady speaks the truth!
Guess she's saying he sold out. What about her? Is she still out there suffering in Soweto? I doubt it.
Like Jesus said,
"First take the chunks from out your eye and then you may behold the splinter in your brother's eye and help him take it out."Mr Mandela chose not give his life for the cause like Gandhi and MLKJ did. That's his own personal choice.
At the same time she would have wielded her "fire tyre justice" on as many bad "white" people as possible. I fail to see how that would have made things better. Is that revenge or "justice"?
"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."
Mohandas K. GandhiJust look to the North of South Africa and look how the once prosperous Rhodesia, the breadbasket of Africa, is now starving and completely coming apart as a gangland and rotten dictatorship grown from nepotism/despotism.
South Africa is a facade, its gonna collapse, because no matter how much money we throw at this raqcial divide mess, and no matter how hard the media tries to paint a pretty picture of balckness, the black run government is heading for a cliff and determined to drive everyone off the cliff like lemmings..I think we should go back to the way things were 50 years ago, and throw Mandela and his criminal wife back in jail and this time throw away the key for good. No more aid. Survival of the fittest...like Nigeria and Liberia...and every single country in sub sahara Africa..a rotten mess that was once kept civilized by colonialism. Lets go back to that, it worked and worked well.
What an evil woman she is, only lives her life to please herself, enriching herself wherever she can - what has she ever done for the poor, has she ever spend a cent of her own on others,not herself...sure she'll go straight to hell
- Lisa, Gauteng RSA, 09/3/2010 05:45
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