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Stompie Seipei's mother: Winnie not responsible for son's murder
she still doesn't know who killed her son, whose body was found near Madikizela-Mandela's home.
She added that she had reconciled with Madikizela-Mandela after she apologised for what had happened to her son.
Despite this, many continued to believe that Madikizela-Mandela had ordered the murder of Seipei, a young activist accused of being a police informant.
Madikizela-Mandela's bodyguard, Jerry Richardson, maintained that he killed Seipei because the teenager had found out Richardson was an informant.
Earlier this week, former police commissioner George Fivaz said there was no evidence linking Madikizela-Mandela to Seipei's death.
Later today, the ruling ANC party will unveil a wall of remembrance for her, following her death last week.
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Senegal politicians arrested as police fire tear gas
Alex Duval Smith
BBC Africa, Dakar
Protesters gathered early this morning near parliament in the capital, Dakar.
Some said they wanted to prevent MPs from attending a controversial voting session at the national assembly.
The politicians arrested are Idrissa Seck, Malik Gakou and Thierno Bokoum.
Judging from television coverage from parliament, the sitting has started and the house is well attended.
The proposed new electoral law increases the number of signatures candidates need to collect before standing in presidential elections.
The opposition says the bill is an attempt by President Macky Sall to limit and control competition in the next election in 2019.
But the government says it wants to streamline the electoral system.
News website Senenews.com has tweeted a link to a live video of the action on the streets:
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Stompie Seipei's mother: Winnie not responsible for son's murder
The mother of Stompie Seipei, a 14-year-old boy
kidnapped by Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's bodyguards, says she doesn't believe
the late activist was responsible for her son's subsequent death.
Stompie Seipei's mother says she doesn't believe the late Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was responsible for her son's murder
Joyce Seipei told the
news site Times LIVEshe still doesn't know who killed her son, whose body
was found near Madikizela-Mandela's home.
She added that she had reconciled with
Madikizela-Mandela after she apologised for what had happened to her son.
Despite this, many continued to believe that
Madikizela-Mandela had ordered the murder of Seipei, a young activist accused
of being a police informant.
Madikizela-Mandela's bodyguard, Jerry Richardson,
maintained that he killed Seipei because the teenager had found out Richardson
was an informant.
Earlier this week, former police commissioner George
Fivaz said there was no evidence linking Madikizela-Mandela to Seipei's death.
Later today, the ruling ANC party will unveil a wall
of remembrance for her, following her death last week.
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Winnie Mandela: The young mother who refused to be broken
Winnie Mandela: The young mother who refused to be
broken
Milton
Nkosi
BBC
Africa, Johannesburg
AFP
The death of South Africa's veteran anti-apartheid
activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela at the age of 81 has sparked a national
debate about how she should be remembered.
The more traditional sections of society, including
her staunch supporters, want us to remember her as a faultless woman.
Others, particularly those who are still in the
trenches fighting the old battles in favour of white supremacy, want us to
remember Mrs Madikizela-Mandela as a violent and deeply flawed individual.
But anyone who wants to truly understand the Winnie
Madikizela-Mandela I knew needs to go back in time and trace the steps of
humiliation she suffered under the racist system of apartheid.
BBC News
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Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Anti-Apartheid Activist, Dies At 81
April 2, 201810:37 AM ET
NPR News
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela waves as she attends the
54th ANC National Conference in Johannesburg late last year.
Mujahid Safodien/AFP/Getty Images
Updated at 12:15 p.m. ET.
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the wife of the late South
African leader Nelson Mandela, and a leading anti-apartheid figure in her own
right during the country's most turbulent years, has died at age 81.
The ruling African National Congress, to which both
Mandelas belonged, said in a statement that she died Monday in Johannesburg
"after a long illness, for which she had been in and out of hospital since
the start of the year."
Madikizela-Mandela was "one of the greatest icons
of the struggle against apartheid," the ANC said.
During the 27 years Nelson Mandela was in prison,
Madikizela-Mandela was one of the most outspoken critics of South Africa's
white government.
She was most visible in the 1980s, when she was
renowned for revving up crowds of young, black activists with her fierce
speeches denouncing the country's comprehensive system of racial segregation.
As she raised the couple's two young daughters, she
was frequently harassed by the government, which at various times put her in
prison, placed her under house arrest, banished her to a remote town and kept
her under constant surveillance. She and her daughters were rarely allowed to
visit Nelson Mandela in prison.
In a 2004 interview on The Tavis Smiley Show, Madikizela-Mandela said:
"I probably
would have never turned out to be what I am today had it not been the
viciousness of apartheid. No human being with any honor and pride could have
stood by and be a spectator and witnessed the horrors of apartheid without
protesting. You had to fight for your dignity."
Yet she also became a polarizing figure mired in
repeated controversies.
The most serious was in 1998, when her team of
hand-picked bodyguards abducted and killed one of its own members, 14-year-old
James "Stompie" Seipei, accusing him of being a government informant.
Madikizela-Mandela denied involvement in his death,
but was eventually convicted of his kidnapping. She was sentenced to prison,
but it was later reduced to a fine.
Nelson Mandela leaves prison hand in hand with his
then-wife, Winnie, upon his release in 1990.
Alexander Joe/AFP/Getty Images
Nelson Mandela was released in 1990 and walked out of
prison with Madikizela-Mandela at his side, both raising clenched fists as
black South Africans celebrated nationwide.
Mandela then led the negotiations with the white
government that would lead to the end of apartheid — and his election as
president — four years later. Meanwhile, Madikizela-Mandela continued to play a
leading role as an activist, frequently appearing at rallies.
But the couple's relationship was clearly strained and
they separated in 1992. They divorced in 1996, while Mandela was serving as the
country's first black president.
While she remained popular, particularly among young
blacks, her reputation at the national and international level suffered from
repeated controversies.
In 1998, the country's Truth and Reconciliation
Commission, headed by the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Rev. Desmond Tutu, found
Madikizela-Mandela "politically and morally accountable for the gross
violations of human rights" during the 1980s due to the actions of her
bodyguards, who were formally known as the Mandela United Football Club.
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Winnie Madikizela-Mandela returns to the town of
Brandfort, where she had been banished by the white government for nine years,
to visit local children in 1986.
Gideon Mendel/AFP/Getty Images
Madikizela-Mandela held a number of prominent
positions in the post-apartheid era, serving as a member of parliament, and
head of the African National Congress Women's League.
But she was convicted of fraud in 2003 and continued
to make controversial statements. In 2010, she was quoted in an interview as
saying that her former husband had "let blacks down."
The ANC asked her to explain the comments, and issued
a statement on her behalf claiming the interview was a fabrication.
In a statement Monday, the ANC said Madikizela-Mandela
"dedicated most of her adult life to the cause of the people and for this
was known far and wide as the Mother Of The Nation."
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