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When I opened the drawer I got a shock. I didn’t believe what I saw. I saw a lot of pictures. When I looked at the pictures they were of Mrs Mandela with Dali Mpofu.

Africa before he could tell his story. He speaks for the first time from his place of exile, thousands of miles from home, about the inside story of Winnie Mandela and her football club. His story is extraordinary as is his journey. ...

Asvat told Winnie there was nothing he could do. Stompie and the other youths must be taken to hospital immediately. Winnie refused and the next day she summoned Asvat to her house.

I am saying it is true things went horribly wrong. I fully agree with that and for that part of those painful years when things went horribly wrong and we were aware of the fact that there were factors that led to that, for that I am deeply sorry.

Since Friday evening South Africans have been asking each other, do you believe Winnie Mandela? What will this do to her public career? Do ordinary people hold her responsible for the death and destruction caused by the people around her in ’87 and ’88? We don’t know. What we do know is that ...

In the light of the persistent campaign of disinformation by the media, the SABC in particular, the programme by one Max du Preez and notwithstanding the fact that the TRC is investigating these issues and notwithstanding further that we are in terms of the law not expected to deal with these ...

From the word go the charges started piling up. The first day’s witnesses implicated Madikizela-Mandela in four serious assaults and six murders. Phumlile Dhlamini accused Madikizela-Mandela of assaulting her whilst she was three months pregnant. She claimed Madikizela-Mandela was unhappy about ...

Report on the Truth and Reconciliation process. It is Monday morning; this is Mayfair, in the heart of Johannesburg. This is where Winnie Madikizela-Mandela will face the Truth Commission this week. It is likely to be the most crucial week of her entire life. She’s the focal point of a special ...

In a blaze of publicity Winnie Mandela’s trial began at the Supreme Court in Johannesburg. Katiza, one of the co accused was absent from the dock, in hiding. There was an instant adjournment to give Winnie more time to prepare her defence. During this break Morgan took Katiza into central ...

Within days two Zulu youths were brought here, to Winnie Mandela’s house. She asked they be shown the location of Dr Asvat’s surgery. Their guide was Katiza.

... symbolic significance. To most South Africans Botha was their Mobutu Sese Seko, their Augusto Pinochet, the symbol of the injustice of the past. Winnie Mandela’s hearing late last year brought more questions than answers and this past week the Truth Commission called several policemen to ...

One of the youths, Nicholas Dlamini has just issued a statement from prison confirming that Katiza Cebekhulu showed him Dr Asvat’s surgery and that Winnie Mandela hired him and an accomplice to assassinate the doctor. Our witnesses, Katiza Cebekhulu and Reggie Jana, say the opposite was true, ...

... of telling it. This chance was there. He took it with both hands and he poured the whole tale out, of how he had been as it were a houseboy in Winnie Mandela’s household. And what he had seen her do. And with graphic illustration, raising his arm in the air, he brought it down with thrusts ...

Winnie hated Paul Verryn. Katiza said she was jealous, jealous of his popularity, jealous of the funds he received from anti-apartheid groups. She saw Verryn as a rival and set out to destroy him. He became the target of an elaborate plot devised by Winnie.

... take Katiza. Now in his seventh year of exile we filmed him thousands of miles from South Africa. We showed Katiza film clips of the many faces of Winnie Mandela denying her involvement in any crimes. The clips included a speech to parliament by the new ANC Deputy Minister of Culture and ...

Last year’s marathon hearing into the Mandela Football Club brought some relief to victims like the Sono family and probably also contributed to the demise of Madikizela-Mandela’s immediate political ambitions. But the hearing did not answer many questions; instead it raised a whole lot of new ...

The next day, leaving Stompie and the others at her house, Winnie drove with Katiza to see her friend and personal doctor, Abubaker Asvat. The date, the 30th of December 1988, is of critical importance in this story. Dr Asvat, a radical activist ran a clinic in Soweto. For her sting against Verryn ...

In 1989 I went to Mrs. Mandela with my husband. We went there to go and plead with her that she must please tell us what happened with Lolo or tell us where he is. Mrs. Mandela refused to speak to me, only spoke to my husband. Again, in the beginning of 1990 we went to Mrs. Mandela to go and plead ...

In Mrs Mandela’s house, the back room has a sliding door. In the middle is the Jacuzzi, and this side is another room with the toilet outside. So when I finished pissing, I heard a noise, like somebody crying. When I saw Mrs Mandela, I was hidden by small trees and flowers by the Jacuzzi. I saw ...

... Katiza was still in prison, but in South Africa his countrymen were free at last. In May 1994 the black majority voted for the first time. Nelson Mandela was elected state president. // I, Nelson…Mandela, do hereby swear to be faithful to the Republic of South Africa. // Will you please raise ...