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...Whoever may be involved''--that's just where one of Mandela's problems lies. The person who has received the most attention recently, both for embarrassing the government and for possibly feathering her nest, is Mandela's estranged wife Winnie. Two weeks ago in Johannesburg, at the funeral of a black police officer killed in a fight with white policemen, Winnie Mandela addressed the crowd of mourners. She accused the government of failing to eliminate racism from the workplace and of ``overindulgence in reconciliation'' with whites. ``Are we in power,'' she demanded, ``or just in the government...
That was too much for the President. He ordered Winnie to retract her statement or resign her post as Deputy Minister of Arts and Culture. She submitted a letter that sought only to ``clarify'' her remarks. No, Mandela said, she would have to do better. Last week he accepted her second letter, in which she said she ``would like to apologize most sincerely for the impression the speech caused that I sought to condemn the government...
...Winnie Mandela has long been a problem for her husband and his colleagues in the African National Congress. During his 27 years in prison she was first a heroine of the antiapartheid movement and then an imperious rival to its leadership. The movement publicly condemned her in 1989 for inflicting a ``reign of terror'' on Soweto with her gang of bodyguards; she was later convicted of kidnapping. She now could pose a political threat to the President. Voicing her angry populism, she provides leadership to thousands of young, militant township dwellers who are impatient with a deliberative political process...
...Winnie Mandela is not the only A.N.C. official facing accusations of corruption. Allan Boesak, a popular A.N.C. leader, announced last week that he would withdraw his nomination to be South Africa's ambassador to the U.N. in Geneva. He is accused of misusing some $800,000 in foreign contributions to his Foundation for Peace and Justice. He denies any wrongdoing, and earlier, when a team of Johannesburg lawyers investigated and said he had ``enriched himself'' with foreign funds, he accused them of racism. Last week President Mandela accepted his withdrawal tersely, ``with regret...
...would like to apologize for the impression that I sought to condemn the government." --WINNIE MANDELA...