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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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