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March 12, 2010

Ex-Wife Criticizes Nelson Mandela for Deal Ending Apartheid
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In South Africa, the anti-apartheid activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
has stoked a major controversy after publicly criticizing her
ex-husband, former South African President Nelson Mandela. In an
interview with the London newspaper the Evening Standard,
Madikizela-Mandela criticized the terms of the agreement that ended
apartheid in South Africa, saying it had preserved the economic
subjugation of the country’s black majority. Speaking of her former
husband, Madikizela-Mandela said, “He agreed to a bad deal for the
blacks. Economically, we are still on the outside.” She went on to
describe the Mandela name as “an albatross around the necks of my
family” and said she could not forgive Mandela for accepting the 1993
Nobel Peace Prize with former South African President F.W. de Klerk.



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