Eighty one after a long illness while the news was announced by her Personal Assistant when mandela was the exwife of the late president and Anti Apartheid Icon Nelson Mandela her legacy in south africa was mixed for decades she was long admired as a determined fighter against white minority rule in south africa but women to his reputation began to suffer and later years due to a number of controversy still she does remain one of south africas most of fining figures and tributes have been pouring in for her this is what one member of the current government had to say she was really it was. Solved in african names. Is the sea deep our evolutionary pain. Of this great i call of regimes drug. Serfontein is a South African journalist author and documentary filmmaker she has reported extensively
on her country thank you so much mr serfontein for being here with us who was Winnie Mandela well shes obviously in the former wife of Nelson Mandela but she was so sort of a very strong figure in a
The we have a blood test of will do for. We have the stall at the dignity of every South African in this company. Nelson mandela he said Bridges Roads and squares named after to special in the well healed suburbs of johannesburg. Black Liberation Icons are all the rage. Drillers lawyers officers and mentions lined the streets all of them on guard interviewed with Security Systems and that includes the Nelson Mandela foundation. Mandelas third wife cross and michelle runs the foundation along with the director whether the Grand Old Man still made any decisions is unclear i will work really
revolves around something that has legs he is called the center of memory and dialogue the expectation is that now liberate a country we have Majority Rule we should have houses for everyone we should have cars for everyone to everyone and they forget that all of that is going to take a long long time jogging would be that we see ourselves as a catalyst for social change. The city of johannesburg can
generation can find out what it was like. if. it. were. there followed years of cruelty. winnie mandela was next in the regime s firing line. that he never wanted a good man get in there on their premises. so they knew they were going to have to release him at some stage so i think the destruction of when the was really also. planned way of destruction. the government s plan worked when he mandela was embroiled in scandals affairs and
so the next generation can find out what it was like. this. while. there followed years of cruelty. winnie mandela was next in the regime s firing on . them he never wanted a good mandela in their on their premises. so they knew they were going to have to release him that some stage so i think that the structure of when he was really also. planned way of destruction he could be. the government s plan worked when he mandela was embroiled in scandals affairs and
a different life. came necessary. in one nine hundred fifty five the african national congress the a.n.c. issued to freedom charter in response to the boer regimes racist system we must study it is not what was said to sound on june twenty sixth one thousand for five so that forgot to half a century later mandela successor becky echoed its credo on national group so they have equal rights. the good what s outside in the country as well as the lens out set up money goes the way it was have. when he mandela and nelson mandela now divorced once formed the glorious figurehead of a south african liberation movement.