It is the first time thou that I get to read someone about who was very close to the Nations icon speak out with a different view to what the world and the media has about Tata Nelson Mandela. Winne Madikizela Mandela who was married to Nelson Mandela for 38 years, raised two children but were only together for 5 of those 38 years because of the struggle spoke out about her views on what her former husband has become in an interview with Nadira Naip the wife of novelist V S Naipaul on Monday.

Winnie Mandela said that Nelson had done nothing for the poor and should have not accepted the Nobel peace prize with the man who jailed him (FW de Klerk) in 1993.

Quotes from the interview include.

“You all must realise that Mandela was not the only man who suffered. There were many others, hundreds who languished in prison and died.”

“Mandela did go to prison and he went in there as a young revolutionary but look what came out. Mandela let us down. He agreed to a bad deal for the blacks. Economically we are still on the outside. The economy is very much ‘white. I cannot forgive him for going to receive the Nobel with his jailer De Klerk. Hand in hand they went. Do you think De Klerk released him from the goodness of his heart? He had to. The times dictated it, the world had changed.” – Winnie Mandela

She goes on to explain that Mandela is now and has been for a long time used to raise funds for the ruling party the ANC. “Mandela is now like a corporate foundation. He is wheeled out globally to collect the money.”

Winnie also attacks another Nobel Prize laureate Bishop Desmond Tutu (1984) together with the Truth Reconciliation Committee.

I am pretty sure that the townships today will be discuss this more at length and are interested in knowing her full views. What about you reading this article? Do you think that Mandela has done enough for the black people in South Africa which fought alongside him in the struggle and got him the presidency, what do you think could have been done differently? Of cause if you think that everything happened the right way then what is Winnie missing from her perspective that make her lash out like this today?

Julius Malemas was celebrating his 29th bithrthday in style, R400 000 worth style for a man who is supposed to be only the ANC Youth League president. He invited everyone but the youth to his celebration and had a costly line up of artist to perfom for him: Rebecca Malope, Winnie Mashaba, Solly Moholo and Mercy Pakela. He even had the guts to go thru with spraying the media with French champagne costing R800 a botle or more.

Easy come, easy go!

Rihanna broke her silence about the domestic violence that she experienced thru her first big love Chris Brown. She told Diane Sawyer exactly what happened last February and before that night. She opened up about how real the situation to her is and how human she is. She says that she finally realized that night as a music superstar what big role she plays in young girls lives and that she did not want them to go thru the same thing she did.

“The more in love we became, the more dangerous we became for each other.” – Rihanna
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