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... ANC leaders. She became the Deputy Minister of Arts and Culture but was fired after a clash with the ANC leadership. Her divorce from President Mandela became final in 1996. We are waiting for Mrs. Madikizela-Mandela’s arrival. Then we take you into the hall where our cameras are already ...

... point that things went horribly wrong for Madikizela-Mandela. Cebekhulu told Verryn’s assistant Xoliswa Falati that he was raped. She took him to Winnie Mandela who immediately ordered Richardson and his gang to kidnap the boys staying with Verryn and take them to her house in Diepkloof. ...

Back home Winnie Mandela remains an icon, however tarnished and tawdry, still seen by some as the mother of the nation, by others as its mugger. Still defiant. Still, despite everything, free and without shame. Meanwhile Katiza Cebekhulu is still in exile, unsafe, a sacrificial lamb for Winnie ...

‘My deepest regret is that I failed Stompie that I was unable to protect him from the anarchy of those times and he was taken from my house and killed…’ // Who killed him? You are the one who killed Stompie. // ‘I am astounded that political loyalties could not stand a single test, that it ...

... Seipei. To our surprise Richardson confessed to the murder of somebody completely different, a young girl called Koekie Zwane and alleged that Winnie Mandela had ordered him to kill ...

Stompie Seipei died at age 13. He was a fiery and unique young anti-apartheid fighter. In 1992 Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, a fiery and unique leader of the anti-apartheid cause was charged with abducting Seipei. Members of her personal army, the Mandela United Football Club were convicted for this ...

Between all the denials and evasive tactics some new facts and corroborations of earlier evidence did emerge. Winnie Mandela has always claimed that she was out of town when child activist Stompie Seipei was brutally beaten at her Diepkloof home. This week, former security policeman Daniel Bosman ...

... mentally confused and that he cried occasionally. Asvat also examined Stompie and the other boys before Stompie died. Cebekhulu told the BBC that Winnie Mandela ordered him to show two unknown young men where Asvat’s surgery was. Asvat was shot to death on 27 January 1989. Asvats’ brother ...

My argument is for Mrs Mandela to be tried again for the murder of Stompie. Because being fined for kidinap, she needs to be tried for the murder of Stompie. If it’s me I’m lying I should be punished. If it’s Winnie lying she should be punished. Because Winnie she claims she is innocent. I ...

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela did not attend this week’s hearing, but her presence dominated the proceedings and the testimony of the former Soweto Security policemen.

The president believed Katiza would be in danger from Winnie Mandela if freed in Zambia. Emma Nicholson worked to find a safe haven for him elsewhere. As a temporary measure only, Katiza was sent back to prison for his own safety. // In South Africa meanwhile Winnie Mandela was found guilty of ...

Crucial questions the Commission had lined up for the policemen included how many of the Mandela United Football Club members were police informers and what relationship Winnie had with the cops; the mystery of why Winnie was never prosecuted or questioned for crimes the police claim they had ...

Some of the most damaging testimony against Madikizela-Mandela however came from the distraught families of the two boys who disappeared during the eighties. Both families hold Winnie Mandela responsible.

Winnie Mandela was widely hailed as the mother of the nation. She was renowned for her courage and indomitable spirit. And in the 1970s she became a martyr when the white government banished her to a remote town called Brandfort. She was callously treated. On return to Soweto in 1985 it was as a ...

... he phoned and said Mom, I’m with Lolo. But thereafter he couldn’t speak any further because the phone was cut off. // In Mrs. Madikizela-Mandela’s section 29 in camera inquiry she stated that she had no idea who Anthony Sibuniso Tshabalala is. // Winnie knows Sibuniso as well as ...

... of this week’s hearing. Everyday a handful of the Winnie faithful demonstrated and sang outside the hall, reminding us the Winnie Madikizela-Mandela still has ...

It was war and when there’s war you kill if a person is violating you or violating your principles. // Viva Winnie Mandela, viva!

... // But PW Botha was not the only difficult politician the Truth Commission had to deal with. It was clear from the beginning that the escapades of Winnie Mandela’s Football Club in Soweto in the 1980s would have to be investigated by the Truth Commission. The Truth Commission preferred an in ...

Mama Sisulu just didn’t want to be implicated in this whole episode of Stompie. I mean if she got involved or she exposed as to what had happened, I mean she would have definitely implicated Winnie Mandela and that would have caused friction between the Sisulu and the Mandela camp.

In August 1985, after her Brandfort home was bombed, Winnie defied her banning order and returned to her real home in Soweto. In 1986 she formed the Mandela United Football Club. They quickly became very unpopular with the Soweto community. Two years later school children burnt down her Orlando ...