Winnie Mandela



Winnie Mandela

Introduction

Winnie Mandela was a queen, the first lady of South African blacks in search of 'equality and empowerment, her remains only one problem, an embarrassment for the movement, an' unexpected propaganda weapon in the hands of the white regime. The wife of Nelson Mandela, the most famous prisoner in the world, a symbol of the political and moral struggle against racial segregation, involved in a shameful history of violence, kidnappings, beatings, torture, murder.

Discussion

Winnie Mandela - an unusually strong woman; strong in all respects. At one time, she with one blow knocked a police officer committed the rudeness. When, in 1963, her husband Nelson was jailed, she said: “We will continue to fight.” She spent a year and a half in jail and brutally interrogated, but the iron will of Winnie overcame everything and everyone. In 1985, she returned from exile and began to fight white minority rule decisively and radically.

She belonged to the Women's League of the African National Congress, and in 1963 after the imprisonment of her husband, was forced to leave Johannesburg. Confined within her house, she was forbidden also meet with more than one person and that her name or photograph appeared in some media.

Played an active role in the ANC, especially in the black township of Soweto, concentration of slums plagued with hunger and disease. Its epicenter was operational as a sports association, the Mandela United Football Club (MUFC), an organization that used to make exhibitions and tournaments. In 1991 she was accused of promoting the kidnapping and torture of young blacks, which caused his marginalization by the African National Congress. It is said that even the doctor personally strangled his family, an elder. Two young men who served in the church of a pastor whose popularity irritated the jealous activist, were tortured into falsely denounce sexual harassment of religious. The refusal cost them their lives. Even the club lacked altruistic goals. It was more a kind of mafia thugs who terrorized blacks as Winnie changing moods.

She was appointed Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology of the first multiracial government led by her husband in 1994. In 1995 it was separated from the government. In 1992 Nelson Mandela was separated, divorcing in 1996.

She was sentenced to jail in 2003 because of fraud by a bank loan, but was released during the appeal process. His lawyers said that personal ambition led her to sign letters seeking bank loans for bogus employees of the Women's League of the African National Congress (ANC, for its acronym in English), she headed at the time.

From the divorce process Winnie Mandela comes up with broken bones. Seem far away are the days when, surrounded by 'halo of heroin, was hailed by the Heads of State from around the world who wanted to meet her to convey, through the' tribute to you, the feelings of solidarity 'with her husband Nelson, in prison for its anti-racist struggles. Now the press, South African and other, looks like a viper, ...