Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

Sexwale even bought Winnie Madikizela-Mandela a top-of-the-range luxury vehicle to befit the mother of the nation...

Nelson Mandela's ex-wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela will oppose his candidacy because he helped to expose her rough activities in the 1980s...

The last time South Africa faced such political passion was in 1997 when the populist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela made her bid for the deputy presidency...

Yet Winnie Mandela failed to turn her popular support into votes within the ANC; perhaps her sympathisers feared that along with passion in office she would bring division...

An implacable foe Winnie Madikizela-Mandela threatened to run a grassroots movement against her using as a base the ANC Women's League until at the 1997 ANC national conference Dlamini-Zuma helped Mbeki to break Madikizela-Mandela's grip on the Women's League...

Cosatu's anti-privatisation strike was denounced as the work of ultra-leftists by the NEC the Youth League the SA National Civic Organisation (SANCO) and the ANC Women's League (a surprise given League President Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's troubled relationship with Mbeki)...

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela is still popular and Mbeki's adversaries might have exploited her to undermine him but a long court case about fraudulent accounting in the ANC Women's League rules her out for now; moreover parliament has disciplined her for non-attendance and Zuma has reprimanded her for failing to hold a Women's League conference...

It is suggested that Zuma was prompted to release his loyalty statement after receiving a letter from Winnie Madikizela-Mandela in which she denied spreading rumours about Mbeki's womanising which mentioned female cabinet members...

He was made to look irrational even by the emotionally and politically erratic Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Mandela's ex-wife who made one of her habitual attacks on the government this time for its inactivity and for being as she put it an 'obedient servant to the multinational companies that continue to put profits above our people'...

Winnie stirs the pot On a visit to Zimbabwe Winnie Madikizela-Mandela stirred the pot exhorting blacks to seize land if they needed it...

Nervously party leaders feared challenges from the left by the South African Communist Party (SACP) and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and from the populists of the Bantu Holomisa-Roelf Meyer United Democratic Front (UDM) and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela...

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela cannot be oustedwhileshe' sPresidentoftheWomen' sLeague...