Winnie was personally more militant than the ANC. As combative as always, she had several physical altercations with the security branch. She was also lonely and scandal quickly began to attach itself to her name. She was cited in a divorce action as the lover of a young black journalist; a male photographer was found hiding under her bed during a police raid; and she became involved with a young man working at the US Information service.
Winnie suffered her first major spell of imprisonment in May , having been arrested, supposedly for political agitation, but more likely for simply being the wife of Nelson Mandela. Her treatment by police was appalling. Held for 17 months, most of it in solitary confinement, she was interrogated and kept awake for up to five days at a time. Fainting, hallucinating and passing blood in her urine, she landed up in the prison hospital suffering from malnutrition.
When a complacent and arrogant Afrikaner prosecutor rose and addressed Winnie by her number, she retorted that she was not a number, that her name was Winnie Mandela, and she should be addressed as such.
It was a display of spiritual strength in adversity that observers never forgot. All the detainees were eventually freed, the charges against them dismissed. The story of her Brandfort years was one of hardship, suffering, loneliness and courage. The police kept her under intense, open surveillance to a degree which suggested that persecution, not surveillance, was the intention. Concerned by the impact on her younger daughter, Zinzi, by then aged 16, and on whom she depended for company, but who seemed to be close to a breakdown, Winnie bravely sent the girl to stay with a friend, Helen Joseph, in Johannesburg.
Her elder daughter, Zeni Zenani , had married into the Swaziland royal family, so Winnie was leaving herself alone but for the ever-watching police. At the same time the Brandfort ordeal seemed to be wearing her down, and there were reports that she was drinking heavily there.
There were also a number of violent incidents in which she was allegedly involved, including an assault on a nine-year-old child for which she was prosecuted, but acquitted. The speech was to haunt her: years later she would still find herself being challenged by the media about it. A few hours later two youths walked into the surgery of Dr Baker Abu Asvat and shot him dead. Stompie, it transpired, was suspected of being a police informer and had been badly beaten up by members of the Mandela United Football Club, which acted as her personal bodyguard, with Winnie either taking part, or at least having knowledge of it.
Realising the boy was in extremis, she had called in Asvat, who found him either dying, or dead. This made Asvat a potential witness in a capital case against Winnie.
The next day he was dead. What has become apparent in retrospect is that the two murders did not occur in isolation, but rather opened a noxious can of worms. The possibility was that Asvat alive could have meant Winnie dead — an icon of the liberation struggle on the scaffold. The potential repercussions were unimaginable. Even more important matters were at hand than two township murders, particularly after that glorious moment on Sunday 11 February , when Winnie and Nelson walked hand in hand through the gates of Victor Verster prison.
Her banning order expired in , and was reimposed in December In May , she was banished to Brandfort in the Free State. Current positions: No current positions recorded. Fetching the latest messages to Nomzamo Winfred Madikizela-Mandela …. What they said in committee meetings: What are committee meetings?
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The continuous and escalating level of persecution suffered by Winnie Mandela was one side of the coin. Her unwavering commitment to justice, effectiveness as a leader in the struggle for social justice, and refusal to be bullied into submission was the flip side. In August Winnie Mandela's "prison cell" in Brandfort was firebombed. No one was charged with the crime, but the shocking attack convinced Mandela to defy the government and return to her home in Soweto.
After her return Mandela's defiance continued unabated—she ignored her banning order and spoke at public gatherings and to the international media. The government chose not to meet her defiance with the fullness of police action possible under law. In , her controversial Mandela United Football Club, a group of young men who lived in her newly built house in Soweto and acted as her bodyguards, caused many other antiapartheid groups to distance themselves from her. These young men were implicated in robberies, assaults and murders in the Soweto area, and Mandela's neighbors accused them of intimidation and extortion.
Matters came to a head when two club members were charged by the police with the kidnapping and beating of three African youths, as well as the kidnapping and murder of year-old Stompie Moeketsi. Moeketsi was a young leader whose member "children's army" opposed Mandela's club and its tactics. Mandela claimed that the boy died of beatings and sexual abuse incurred at the Methodist church where he had been previously hiding out. Even so, Mandela's bodyguards came under suspicion in two other murders and South Africa's largest organizations.
Mandela finally disbanded her bodyguards and had the club dismantled after pressure from the ANC and her husband. Mandela's once unblemished image was tarnished in the eyes of her people and it wasn't until Nelson Mandela's release from prison in that she was somewhat rehabilitated.
Nelson Mandela stood by his wife when she was appointed head of the ANC's social welfare department and eventually given a cabinet post in his new government. Her legal troubles continued however. She was ordered to stand trial for the death of Moeketsi when the three surviving youths of the Soweto kidnapping testified in the trial of Jerry Richardson—who was convicted of murdering Moeketsi—that Mandela took part in the beatings. The judge assigned to Mandela's case described her testimony as "vague, evasive, equivocal, inconsistent, unconvincing and brazenly untruthful".
She was convicted on the charge of accessory after-the-fact in the assaults and sentenced to six months in prison. Freed on bail, Mandela was permitted to appeal her conviction, a process that would take years. In April , Nelson and Winnie Mandela agreed to separate after 33 years of marriage.
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