A very sweet rest in peace message and photo to Winnie Mandela from Tamron Hall.

[Miles Archer]

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Mother Winnie, it took me all day to find the words and I still came up with nothing that captures the undeniable love, the unforgettable warmth and formidable advice on perseverance that you’ve offered me. Rest In Peace, the great Winnie Mandela.

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[riversedge]

1. lovely. thanks for post.

[brooklynite]

2. "Judge Convicts Winnie Mandela As Accessory in Assault on Youths"

With all due respect, she had a very checkered past...

After a trial lasting 14 weeks, Winnie Mandela, wife of the African National Congress leader, Nelson Mandela, was found guilty in a Johannesburg court today of kidnapping four youths who were taken to her home late in 1988 and severely beaten.

But Mrs. Mandela escaped conviction for assault with intent to commit grievous bodily harm. The presiding judge, Michael S. Stegmann, said prosecutors had not discredited Mrs. Mandela's alibi, in which she said that she was 200 miles away when the assaults took place. She was convicted of the less serious charge of accessory after the fact to the assaults. Lengthy Verdict

Justice Stegmann, who is described by lawyers who know him as a scrupulous jurist without evident political bias, delivered a detailed verdict that took him six and a half hours to read. He variously described Mrs. Mandela's testimony as vague, evasive, equivocal, inconsistent, unconvincing and brazenly untruthful.

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/14/world/judge-convicts-winnie-mandela-as-accessory-in-assault-on-youths.html

The final report of the South African Truth and Reconciliation commission, issued in 1998, found "Ms Winnie Madikizela Mandela politically and morally accountable for the gross violations of human rights committed by the MUFC" and that she "was responsible, by omission, for the commission of gross violations of human rights

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie_Madikizela-Mandela