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...Zackie Achmat is a dangerous man - to those he sees as perpetrators of injustice. Always has been. Because once he decides to challenge them, he knows no half-measures. At age 14, he tried to burn down his school during the 1976 Soweto uprising against apartheid education. And that was just the opening act of a teenage activist career that saw him leave high school well acquainted with apartheid's prison cells and with the knuckles of its security policemen. He spent the next two decades as a tireless activist in the struggle to end apartheid, and once that struggle...
...Encarta Africana includes video footage of riots both in the Los Angeles and South Africa's Soweto township, as well as videotaped lectures from celebrities ranging from Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West '74 to Whoopi Goldberg...
...what some South Africans have been calling her since 1991, when she was convicted of kidnapping and fined $3,200. The case against Madikizela-Mandela (she added her maiden name after the 1996 divorce from President Nelson Mandela) arose out of her involvement with a bunch of young Soweto Township toughs who called themselves the Mandela United Football Club and acted as her bodyguards. In 1988 the gang abducted four youths from a township mission house, and one of them, a 14-year-old activist nicknamed Stompie (Afrikaans for cigarette butt) Seipei, was later found murdered. The "coach...
...claimed she not only ordered Seipei's murder but also told him to kill another youngster, a girl she believed to be a police informer. Last week Katiza Cebekhulu, who said he was smuggled out of the country to prevent his giving testimony linking her to a number of Soweto murders, was one of more than 40 people called by the Truth Commission to testify to the activities of Winnie Mandela. Pointing his finger at her, the slightly built, nervous Cebekhulu declared, "I saw her kill Stompie." She shook her head, shrugged and turned away...
Most of these allegations have already been published; she has denied them all. She lost her cool once last week, outside the hall when she was asked about the possibility of facing private prosecutions for the death of Seipei and another Soweto activist. "I don't give a damn!" was her shouted reply...