South Africa Buries Nelson Mandela's Wife, Winnie Mandela Today Aimed Tears - Photos

Thousands of mourners have crowded into a stadium in Soweto, near Johannesburg, where Winnie Madikizela-Mandela is being given a high-level send-off. Her casket was draped in the national flag, and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered the eulogy.

Mrs Madikizela-Mandela, former wife of Nelson Mandela, died earlier this month at the age of 81. A controversial figure, Mrs Madikizela-Mandela was lauded for her role in the anti-apartheid struggle. But she was later shunned by the political elite for endorsing punishment killings for government informers.

Mrs Madikizela-Mandela's daughter Zenani Mandela-Dlamini berated the "extreme cruelty" of those she said had led smear campaigns against her mother and isolated her - only to clear her name after her death.

In Winnie's daughter's words;

"It is so disappointing to see how they withheld their words during my mother's lifetime, knowing very well what they would have meant to her. Only they know why they chose to share the truth with the world after she departed," Mrs Mandela-Dlamini said.

President Ramaphosa described Mrs Madikizela-Mandela as a symbol of resistance who laid bare the edifice of patriarchy. He apologised for only belatedly recognising her contribution.

In the President's words;

"I'm sorry, Mama, that your organisation delayed in according you its honour, to this point in time and moment. As president, I will propose that we award you the highest order of our movement, you richly deserve to be awarded", Mr Ramaphosa said.

There were loud cheers when the radical Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema paid tribute to Mrs Madikizela-Mandela. Mrs Madikizela-Mandela was a social worker when she met her future husband, then a prominent anti-apartheid campaigner, in the 1950s.

They were married for a total of 38 years. For almost three decades of that time, they were separated by Mr Mandela's long imprisonment. They had two daughters together. After Mr Mandela was imprisoned by the apartheid regime, Mrs Madikizela-Mandela became an international symbol of resistance to apartheid. She too was jailed for her role in opposing white minority rule.

To her supporters, she became known affectionately as "Mother of the Nation". But Mrs Madikizela-Mandela also found herself mired in scandal for decades. She was accused of conducting a virtual reign of terror in parts of Soweto by other members of the ANC in the late 1980s, and in 2003 she was convicted of fraud.

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Issokay

Sadly and oddly enough every living thing must tast death

Here's a full coverage of the funeral.

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Aimed tears at whom?

RIP to Winnie Mandela. She won't be needing the tears "aimed" at her beyond the grave, as her noble service to her people will be enough a fountain to quench her thirst whenever she needs water on the other side.

The era of Messiahs seems to be over. The people need to become the new heroes. Nigerians can make history by liberating themselves from the vampires currently sucking their life-blood, so that posterity will accord us greater honour.

No Vampire is smelling Aso Rock come 2019. Who's with me?

Rest on great lady, the heart of a good woman is indeed a blessing to many generations. You have made ur mark in the sands of time for good indeed ur resilience will always be remembered by those dead and alive for ages to come. Rest in peace Mama South African

Amid

RIP.

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rip

Everyone dies but not everyone lives..

They were "aiming' the tears abi...

Who ever fails should be allowed to repeat...

Wtf is aimed tears?

Op if you can't use big words properly, just use simple ones... We will still understand you.

Eniire lo... RIP

"Aimed tears"....."Amid you mean

Amid tears.

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RIP winnie

This grammar is aimed at bringing me to tears.

Death is a price,every man must pay.

Useless ugly old black bitch glad she's dead atleast now her profound useless in life can be absolved by using her as fertilizer.

Redoil:
Sadly and oddly enough every living thing must test death

test death, did you say? Who's your English language teacher in Pry 3? Go get an Oxford dictionary if you've lost your Michael West! Test! And you're a student somewhere in the past!

Rest well sweet moma

Stupid headlines typo

Nairaland Admins and Moderators. Do not allow all these bloggers to dent your reputation.


Always check their contents thoroughly before pushing to frontpage.


Imagine this blogger even goofed right from the headline and yet one moderator pushed it to front page like that.

It is "Amidst" and not "Aimed"

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Seun

Lalasticlala

Mistake again on the front page.

Amidst tears not Aimed tears.

This is becoming a habit.

Soon it will become the norm.

am still looking for them tears..lol

I thought she divorced Mandela, why are they still calling her Mrs Mandela or is it because Mandela is a big name?