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1995. South Africa reaches out emotionally to the concept of a rainbow nation. This moment is imprinted on our psyche as a time when one nation became a possibility, but today we have to ask is the rainbow nation a mirage? Did it exist? Can it exist? And if it does, is it over?

She was untouchable. // Mrs. Mandela was not the kind of person whom you visited upon a brainwave and upset her whole household and see if I could arrest her, that would have meant the end of my career at that stage. // I always reached the conclusion that the people were afraid of her. // She is a ...

Koekie Zwani Miya was Zindzi Mandela’s best friend and a regular at the Mandela home. Jerry Richardson says he killed Koekie on Madikizela-Mandela’s orders after allegations that she was an informer.

... were said about the Truth Commission process. But let’s get down with the rest of the programme. First thank you very much to Donald Woods, Maki Mandela and in Cape Town Herman Giliomee and Abraham Mzizi, thank you very ...

... has passed, and the real challenges lie at the negotiating table. I believe the time for fighting and playing soldier is over, we must now go to Mr Mandela, like Moses went to Pharoah and talk to ...

This is our call to all South Africans to fan up the moral fibre of our nation. It is a call to artists and musicians and sport persons, to religious leaders and traditional institutions, to intellectuals, to the media and to all those who should give leadership as we establish new symbols and role ...

Right, let’s get stuck into that. Dr Mandela, we talked about perceptions now, but Mr. Mzizi is bringing up something else – the whole question of reopening of old wounds. He just said the healing had begun but now the Truth Commission has scratched open the wounds. Do you agree with that ...

... minute you said you wanted to answer, then she start beating you. So we were screaming a lot and they were singing while we were being beaten. Mrs. Mandela began to sjambok us; we were sjambokked for quite a long ...

Why was she not integral to the structures of the UDF or the MDM at the time? // The question of which structure had authority over Mrs. Mandela is in fact the relevant question here, such that the input that we’ve made did suggest that the nature of the relationship was not a straightforward ...

‘Address to the nation by ANC President Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela on the assassination of Martin Thembisile (Chris) Hani, 10 April 1993.’ // We are a nation in mourning. Our pain and anger is real, yet we must not permit ourselves to be provoked by those who seek to deny us the very freedom ...

... was Stompie Seipei’s last moments. // I saw Richardson coming from this point to the other direction holding something in his hand. // Was Mrs. Mandela anywhere nearby? // She was standing right next to the Jacuzzi and Richardson put the person here and I saw Mandela’s wife, raising up her ...

... on he shouted why don’t I call my God to release me from the chair and that I would see that they, the security branch, they are God. That not Mandela, that not Treurnicht, Terreblanche or De Klerk ran this country, but that they ran the country. The major put his foot on my head and he said ...

It was in December. Mrs. Mandela called me and said please I want you to do me a favour. I said what favour and she said go to the priest’s house, you tell Paul that you don’t have a place to sleep. If he accepts you try and sleep with him in the same bed. The next morning you tell the ...

The last witness on Monday was John Morgan. He has known Madikizela-Mandela for more than 30 years and says he has been her driver for ten years. In her Truth Commission hearing behind closed doors last month she claimed she had never employed him. Morgan was the first eye witness to the abduction ...

Hello. In tonight’s programme we introduce you to a young activist who survived the vicious assaults of Winnie Mandela’s Football Club. Thabiso Mono gives his eyewitness account of the night of terror that cost Stompie Seipei his life. But our main focus tonight is on the amnesty hearings in ...

I would just like to put to you in that vein that it is whenever people are exposing the activities of you and your associates you label them, as informers and working with the system. What is your reaction to that? // I am not aware of people I have falsely accused of being informers whenever they ...

... 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. ...

... that continued in Johannesburg this week (27 November - 4 December). MUFC ?coach? Jerry Richardson testified that he was ordered by Madikizela-Mandela to kill Stompie Seipei, Koekie Zwane, Sibuniso Tshabalala and Lolo Sono and confirmed allegations that he was a police informer. Dr Abubaker ...

What is interesting for us was to find out with all these allegations going on around the activities of the Mandela United Football Club, what did the security branch know about all this, because we are aware that there was surveillance by them and they’ve admitted that they had a telephone tap ...

When Kathrada decided that Robben Island should be developed as a National Monument, a National Museum, it set in motion its redevelopment as a cultural and conversation showcase for South Africa’s democracy. When our Museums and Monuments preserve the whole of our diverse heritage, when they ...