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It has been brought to my attention Mr. Chairman that according to media reports on 24 October 1997 Mrs. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has alleged before this Commission that the president of South Africa, President Nelson Mandela, had instructed me as National Commissioner of the South African Police ...

... of the Truth Commission Special Report. During the last few days several reports have been published in South Africa alleging Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s involvement in the killing of Dr Abubaker Asvat at his Soweto surgery on 27 January 1989. The main source of these new reports is ...

My instructions Chairperson, is that the witness is narrating a figment of imagination. // Winnie Mandela knows the inside of my house, because that is where she took me and she knows deep down inside of her that I am not telling any lies. Why would I tell lies about her?

If Winnie Mandela went to Brandfort then on December the 30th she was away all that day, it was 200 miles away. Are you sure you saw her on December the 30th in Soweto? // Yes, because December 29 was the day of beating Stompie. On December 30 she took me to see Dr Asvat. So Mrs Mandela is lying. ...

That day is not far when we shall lead you to freedom. Amandla!

... on Monday. That will include the dramatic statement by one of the convicted killers, Zakhele Mbatha that he got the murder weapon from the hands of Winnie Mandela. On Tuesday, the so-called coach of the football club and the man who was convicted of killing Stompie Seipei, Jerry Richardson will ...

After the break the special hearing for the religious communities and Winnie Mandela and the just war.

After months of manoeuvring and counter manoeuvring beleaguered ANC Women’s League President Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has finally been forced to give up on her bid for the ANC’s deputy presidency. This followed a unanimous decision by the Party’s 50th conference to raise the percentage of ...

‘After the break: // The Ex-files // The poisoning of Activists // Winnie Mandela accuses the Special Report’

... Winnie’s driver said at her trial that she was in Brandfort. He admits he lied. // We were merely lying there. All of us. Trying to defend Mrs Mandela. I actually wanted to report the matter to the police but I thought Winnie’s comrades were going to crush me or kill me. So I decided not ...

Cebekhulu also fell out of favour when he says he found photographs of a naked Winnie with her lover. He was arrested by the security police but in an unexplained twist handed over to Winnie. He claimed that she and her bodyguards beat him up badly. He says she offered him a choice between leaving ...

... become famous. He was the central character in a book and a BBC documentary. He skipped the country before he had to testify against Madikizela-Mandela. He was rescued by British baroness Emma Nicholson who has since taken him under her wing. Cebekhulu was the one who first talked about ...

... nine days last year, one witness after another appeared before the Truth Commission in Mayfair and pointed an accusing finger in Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s direction. The allegations ranged from personal beatings by Mandela to tales of abduction and eight brutal murders. One of South ...

... Why do you think he was holding back? // Well, he was protecting people. // Who? // Well, the only one that was involved in the affair was Winnie, Winnie Mandela, more deeply so than anybody admitted during the ...

Winnie Mandela, PW Botha, Magnus Malan, Clive Derby-Lewis and Janusz Walus. That’s who the Truth Commission had to deal with this past week. In today’s programme we have full reports on the amnesty applications of Chris Hani’s murderers, the testimony by former Defence Minister Magnus Malan ...

There is wide national and international interest in the Mandela United Football Club hearings starting tomorrow. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela also thrusts herself into the spotlight once again this week with a stinging attack on her own Party and its government. She was harshly rebuked by Sports ...

That it could even be dreamt that I would be responsible for the murder of a child when I have spent all my life fighting against these injustices, appals me.

The doctor who had to examine Stompie, Katiza and some of the other kidnapped boys, Abubaker Asvat, was also the Mandela family doctor. Asvat was shot dead at his surgery on January 27, 1989. Before the killing Winnie and Zindzi regularly had supper with the Asvat’s on Friday nights. After the ...

the ANC of 1984, ’85 – ’85 I think is the period of the first necklacing – to have stood up and said this is wrong, out with it. // Was Mrs. Mandela acting as an ANC member during the 1980s and if so, was she subject to any organisational discipline? // It’s correct for me to point out ...

... uprising of 1976. But first, we look at the very serious allegations of human rights violations made against two top ANC leaders, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and Natal leader, Jacob ...