WINNIE MANDELA DIES AT 81 IN JOHANNESBURG HOSPITAL
Penpushing report that Winnifred Madikizela was born in 1936 in Eastern Cape; she moved to Johannesburg as a social worker where she met her ex late husband in 1957 and they got married a year later and also blessed with two children.
Her late former hubby was arrested and imprisoned for treason six years after they married and was not released until 1990, while she (late wife}also suffered house arrest and banishment in the hands of the apartheid government.
The deceased was also placed in solitary confinement for 18 months under the notorious Terrorism Act of 1967, but soon after the release of her husband, controversy after another trailed Mrs. Mandela. In 1991, and she was convicted for kidnapping and being an accessory to assault in the murder of a young activist, ‘Stompie’ Seipei.
She was sentenced to six years in imprisonment, while her jail term was later reduced to a fine and two-year suspended sentence after an appeal, but ironically, later, a letter she allegedly wrote to her young lover found its way into the newspapers.
“The fact that I haven’t been speaking to Tata [Nelson Mandela] for five months now over you is no longer your concern. I keep telling you the situation is deteriorating at home. You are not bothered because you are satisfying yourself every night with a woman‚” Mrs. Mandela reportedly wrote.
However, 37 years after their marriage the couple divorced in 1996‚and after the first democratic election in 1994‚ Mrs. Mandela became an Member of Parliament and was appointed Deputy Minister of Arts and Culture. She was sacked by her husband after an unauthorised trip to Ghana.
