The Lady: Life and Times of Winnie Mandela

by EmmaGilbey (Author), EmmaGilbey (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1993

  $6.66

  This biography is of the most popular and dangerous woman in South Africa, Winnie Mandela. She was born on September 26 1934, the fourth daughter of a prosperous family in the Transkei. Theirs was not a penniless childhood. Gilbey traces her growing political involvement and her marriage to Nelson Mandela in 1959. They were together for less than a year before Nelson Mandela was imprisoned and Winnie's true political life began. It is subsequently a story of protest, of jails, of banning, of Soweto life and the tragic formation of Mandela United. Winnie Mandela was convicted of authorizing kidnapping and abduction, and as an accessory to crimes of violence. She is appealing against this, but her marriage to Mandela is over.