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But the most devastating blow to Madikizela-Mandela’s projected image of the innocent victim of a nasty conspiracy came from Archbishop Desmond Tutu himself, especially through his extraordinary praise for those church and political leaders who had the courage then and now to confront ...

Ok, Mr. Ikaneng, Mr. Mekgwe, Mr. Mono, Mr. Demsi, Mr. Kgase, Mr. Morgan, Mr. Richardson, Ms Falati have all conspired to lie and implicate you. Is that what I’m understanding you to mean? // They have lied sir.

This year, her relationship with the Truth Commission again made headlines when she met with the controversial American leader of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan.

... from domestic disputes to those who crossed their paths and who were branded as informers. It was widely spoken about in the community that Mrs. Mandela often directed these ...

I just want to say that we have had a very close relationship with the Mandela’s. We live in the same street in what is sometimes called Beverly Hills. Our children went to the same school in Swaziland, they call me uncle and so on and Mrs. Madikizela-Mandela is godmother to one of our ...

... ANC bases in Mozambique and Angola to Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. Here, Zambian intelligence took charge. There was no education as promised by Winnie. For a house, Katiza was given a cell here in one of Africa’s most notorious prisons, Lusaka Central. Katiza was lost to the world. Some ...

The period between the release of Nelson Mandela and the run-up to the 1994 election was a turbulent one. A lot of the political violence happened between supporters of the ANC and the IFP with the police playing a sinister role. Much of the violence was launched from the hostels on the surrounding ...

Lolo Sono. He had his arms wrapped around his head. He seemed to be trying to protect himself by covering his skull with his hands and forearms. Mrs Mandela was beating him savagely. She had a heavy whip in her right hand, which she was using to whip him with again and again.’ Is that correct? ...

In the context of those years it’s possible that the Zambian government would have assumed Nelson Mandela’s direct involvement, but we asked President Mandela if this was true. This week his office told us that for the record ‘… the president wishes to make it clear that he did not arrange ...

We do confirm that the document was written by us. If I understood you well when you read the extract from the previous hearing, Mrs. Mandela says it was obviously from STRATCOM. It would be interesting to hear what is ‘obviously STRATCOM’ about this document, but we are saying it was written ...

Stompie could not see. The eyes were small, the head was soft. He asked for water to drink. I wanted to give him a cup, but he couldn’t even hold the cup. Mrs. Mandela said. Give them nothing. You should not give them food; you should not give them water.

Little more than a week after the hearings Madikizela-Mandela’s bid to become the ANC deputy president at the organisation’s National Conference failed.

... to be alive. // What happened after that? // She hit the others. She hit Kenny then when Kenny tried to block the fists then the other comrades at Mandela’s place, that is the football club, held Kenny on both hands so that he couldn’t block the fists from Mrs. Mandela. // Did you ...

... you’re telling me that perhaps somewhere there were imaginations of STRATCOM of which we had no power over. // What was it about Mrs. Madikizela-Mandela and her football club that made it so difficult for very important prominent people in positions people held from acting decisively before ...

... …. I don’t say you said this … the other theory that is associated with absence of action by the security police is that Mrs. Madikizela-Mandela herself was working with the security police. What are your views in that regard? // If you want my personal opinion then I would say that I ...

... I was trained in counterinsurgency tactics and counterrevolutionary measures to stop the eventual onslaught. We were led to believe that Nelson Mandela was portrayed as being a monster, a communist and a violent ...

... in the recent abductions and assault on young people like Stompie. We believe that had Stompie and his three colleagues not been abducted by Mrs. Mandela’s Football Team, he would have been alive today. The Mass Democratic Movement at this point hereby wishes to distance itself from Mrs. ...

Fivaz surprised the Commission by telling them that in 1995 the police gave Jerry Richardson, former Mandela Football Club coach R10 000 in exchange for information about the 1988 killing of a security policeman. According to Fivaz, Richardson wanted his money before he would talk about his part in ...

Nothing came of the thousands of right wingers, only a handful turned up. // This is my flag. Nobody, Mandela to the grassroots people, will take it away. It’s my flag, it will stay with me. // Do you support PW Botha? // Too much. Let them touch him then they’ll see who the real Afrikaner is, ...

it which stated that they had been promised R20 000 for the murder of my brother. And the statement said which was never produced in court, that Mrs Mandela had offered this money. It was never used in court. It is an unsigned ...