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...time a gold-colored BMW drove up to the stadium. But the remaining 8,000 or so people quickly recognized the woman who emerged from the car, and they escorted her into the stadium shouting, "Winnie! Winnie! Mother of the nation!" To their surprise and pleasure, Winnie Mandela, wife of jailed A.N.C. Leader Nelson Mandela, addressed the crowd. "This is our country," she told them. "As you have had to bury our children today, so shall the blood of these heroes be avenged...
With that, Mandela, 51, defied the government restriction that has forbidden her to speak in public for nearly 25 years. A leading antiapartheid activist in her own right, Mandela has endured arrests and solitary confinement. She was banished eight years ago to Brandfort, a remote area of the Orange Free State. But since her home was firebombed by unidentified arsonists in August, she has become increasingly defiant, leaving Brandfort without permission, traveling throughout the country and meeting with the press...
...Pretoria has seemed reluctant to move against her. But last week's speech represented perhaps her boldest act, and could prompt the government to retaliate. Two days after her speech, Mandela, reportedly suffering from exhaustion and the recurrence of a minor heart problem, was admitted to a private nursing home. It seemed unlikely that the government would act before she was released...
...sort of defiance that Mandela displayed seemed to be in the air last week. The newly formed Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) also flouted the government by calling on foreign-based companies to divest themselves of South African holdings. "While Western companies argue that this will bring suffering to blacks, COSATU says that black people have been suffering since 1652, when the Boers first came to this country," said Elijah Barayi, president of the group. It was one of the most radical calls to action made publicly by the head of a legally recognized black organization since...
Following the execution, Mamike Moloise, 53, complained bitterly that she had been denied the opportunity to visit her son on the day of his death. "I begged," said the bereaved mother, who waited outside the prison gates accompanied by, among others, Winnie Mandela, wife of jailed A.N.C. Leader Nelson Mandela. "I said, 'It's the last time. That's my son.' This government is cruel. It is really, really cruel." Mrs. Moloise was later permitted to see her son's unopened coffin, but his body will remain the property of the state and will be buried inside the prison...