I am not sure if you know that WINNIE MANDELA does not carry the same amount of support that NELSON does. He is cut from an entirely different cloth, that is why they are no longer married.

Please concentrate your energies on your own lives and leave this woman in peace.

If not Mandla who has sold Mandela funeral rights, it is Zindzi who didn't paid her rent or is earning money in her fathers name or is Winnie who has crticized Mr. Mandela.

What I want to know is, do Mandela family members eat in your homes? do they borrow clothes from you? do they interfere in your family matters?

You are making all this noise and campain because of Mandela Legacy. But I know God is on His trone. He is God of Justice and is Greater than your god, the one you people serve and obey who is called prince of this world, who take pleasure to harm honest people, but he is defeated on the cross. So all your agitations is already doomed to failure.

It is better you people surrender your lives to Jesus and seek to love and do good to people instead of hating and harming them ofrfor no reason.

Bon entendeur salut!!!

WMM = Was Mandela's Missus.

Which is why she may be grumpy now maybe? Bit of the old sour grapes, woman scorned thing going on here perhaps?

That article looks very well documented and is an excellent piece of writing (lets' assume that the London Evening Standard is not in the same level of tabloid nonsense as my "friends" at the Sun newspaper).

On that basis, why would the writer have made this all up?

Come on ANC, time to accept that the movement is under internal assault – Cosatu, Vavi, Malema, now Winnie too are all stirring the pot from within your own falls. It's a palace revolt in the making.

The ANC was trying to contact MP Winnie Madikizela-Mandela to find out if she really said Nelson Mandela had let down black people, an official said on Tuesday.

"She is in the US now and we are in the process of trying to locate her," said ANC spokesperson Ishmael Mnisi.

"We want to ask her if these comments were made by her; if this is exactly what she said."

DUH! Pick up a phone, dial her number. 21st century people!

Reading Nadira Naipaul’s interview with Winnie Mandela reminded me of my lunch with her daughter Zindzi a few weeks ago. I was invited by Maya Katra, the Lebanese ambassador’s wife. Her special guest was Zindzi.

Zindzi spoke fondly of her father and told us how the family got together often for lunch and how Winnie and Graca sat on either side of Madiba at the long family table.

What Winnie tells VS Naipaul’s wife sounds at odds with what Zindzi told the lunch guests last month. Naipaul says:

Zenani, now 51, and Zindzi, 50, remain very much in the background, having no wish to enter politics themselves, Winnie said. Nelson Mandela is no longer “accessible” to his daughters and they have to get through much red tape just to speak to their father, she told us.

It spurned from an argument/constructive conversation I was having on another blog re the same subject.

The name MANDELA will always be her "meal ticket" and when things are tight at the bank she will agree to an interview and say something that sells.

Winnie Madikizele would be pretty much a nobody if it weren't for that "name Mandela that is an albatross around her neck".

Does anyone know Chris Hani's wife? How about Mrs. Biko? Mac Maharaja's wife name please? I'm sure they, and Winnie, did play an important part in the lives of their respective spouses. But honestly, saying that her association with Mr. Mandela has been such a burden on her life? Give me a break.

Why didn't she drop the "Mandela" bit from her name when they separated? Why even to this day does she continue to use the Mandela connection to further herself and her ambitions?