From: Michael Hoover <hoov-AT-freenet.tlh.fl.us> Subject: M-FEM: Di/Teresa-What about Winnie? (fwd) Date: Sun, 14 Sep 97 18:21:56 18000 I was off-line for a bit because of service disruptions at the freenet and may have missed posts to m-fem...then again, the list has been quiet lately...in any event, the below forward is not about D or MT (who were topics of a good deal of discussion on several lists I sub to)...Michael Forwarded message: > Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 13:05:40 +0200 > From: Malcolm Draper <draperm-AT-socio.unp.ac.za> > To: PROGRESSIVE SOCIOLOGISTS NETWORK <psn-AT-csf.colorado.edu> > Subject: Di/Teresa-What about Winnie? > > If some of you are upset about Mother Teresa being less than saintly, > then what about Winnie Madikizela Mandela? She is another of the > globe's most famous women who is fast becoming one of the most > infamous. She might not be dead, but it is her murderous involvement > with other people's deaths which is geeting global tv time, as well as > providing the subject of Bridgeland's book "Katiza's Journey" about a > witness smuggled out of South Africa to Zambia to languish there in > prison. > > Far more disturbing to me than the do and don'ts of Di's demise and > Mother Teresa's transgressions, is the tumbling of this icon Winnie from > the pedestal of being the Mother of the nation --she is still head of the > ANC's women's league, to being dubbed the Mugger of the Nation. The > BBC documentary showed a mother of one her victims asking how a > woman who has experienced the pain of childbirth could kill some one > else's child. > > Even more disturbing is the alledged hand of her now estranged > husband -- my state president -- and his government in orchestrating the > disappearance of the key witness who saw her stabbing young Stompie > in the chest twice after having him beaten within an inch of his life. How > many mothers say threaten their children with such action, but how few > mean it. Nelson Madela said yesterday that he is reading the book , but it > would be premature to comment. > > The story, which is by no means yet fully told, is horrific. Winnie appears > before the Truth and Reconciliation Commision at the end of the month to > defend herself against the allegations. At her earlier trial where absent > witnesses and overly loyal henchmen who took the rap saved her, the > judge commented that she showed herself to be a unabashed liar on > several occasions. > > I guess its all lesson in the folly of idolatry.
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