according to http://www.eurweb.com
Winnie Mandela has sparked mass outrage in South Africa after leveling harsh criticism against her 92-year-old ex-husband and anti-apartheid icon, Nelson Mandela.
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela said she could not forgive him for accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 alongside F.W. De Klerk, according to British newspaper Evening Standard. The white president released Mandela and went on to participate in negotiations that ended apartheid.
“He agreed to a bad deal for the blacks. Economically, we are still on the outside. The economy is very much ‘white.’ It has a few token blacks, but so many who gave their life in the struggle have died unrewarded,” Madikizela-Mandela was quoted as saying.
The Star newspaper in Johannesburg accused Madikizela-Mandela of unleashing a “rant.” The governing African National Congress said it would not comment until its leaders could discuss the article with Madikizela-Mandela, who was traveling abroad Wednesday.
Madikizela-Mandela’s comments contrast sharply with those she made only last month at a forum marking the 20th anniversary of his release from prison. She said then that Mandela was loved and recognized around the world for his fearlessness, and that he had emerged from prison still committed to revolution.
The contrast prompted the Johannesburg newspaper The Times to accuse her of having “two faces.”
Mandela accused Madikizela-Mandela, his second wife, of infidelity and the two divorced in 1996, six years after he walked free following 27 years in prison. In recent years, Madikizela-Mandela has often joined Mandela and his third wife, former Mozambican first lady Graca Machel, at family gatherings.
