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Spartacus R.
The editor of Global Africa Pocket News and author of "Violation" and "The Maãt Mystery" takes another look at the world.

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The Assassination
of
Winnie Mandela

When Global Africa (Black people) come to write our own story, the life and work of those courageous Brothers and Sisters past, present and future, who have dedicated their lives to our struggle for liberation will be celebrated throughout the known universe. Their names will be written big and bold on the hearts of every freedom loving person for all of eternity. But in the mean time, for just a little while longer we will endure the indignity of watching almost helplessly, as our greatest heroes are vilified and crucified in the Global European (White) media as a prelude to being physically assassinated before our very eyes. One such person is Nomzamo Nobandla Winifred Madikizela-Mandela.

On the 9th September 1997 an extremely vicious attack, lacking in subtlety even by CIA/MI6/MOSSAD standards, was made on Winnie Mandela by an agent named Fred Bridgland using the camera as his weapon in an elaborate attempt to assassinate her character (Winnie Mandela and the Missing Witness). Bridgland bemoans the fact that Winnie "still remains an icon" to many millions of Africans after so many attempts by his people to destroy her in the media. He continues the barrage by calling her the "Mugger" of the nation instead of the "Mother of the Nation" as she is affectionately known. Yet he gives no indication how she is supposed to have mugged the nation except that she is being accused of having executed Stompie Maketzie and Lolo Sono who were themselves accused of betraying the movement as police informers.

In every war there are bound to be casualties. Some of these casualties may appear to be unjustifiable as far as their relatives and loved ones are concerned, but may well be highly justifiable within the context of a liberation struggle where the enemy is feeding faulty information directly or indirectly, to every member of the movement. I have no desire or intention to defend any African person who it can be proven kills or attacks any other African person without justification. Of course, some will say there is never any justification for killing anyone but I would beg to differ. What would those same people do if they suddenly realised that their own life or the life of their child or grand child was at stake and the only way to save that life and prevent further deaths is to eliminate the attacker, whether he or she be the enemy, a pig informer, an agent or some other kind of traitor?

If it can be proven that Winnie was responsible for the deaths of Stompie or Lolo or anyone else and it can also be proven that they were not traitors and she knew it at the time, then she needs to be punished according to the crime. But by Africans, not by our enemies. That would be an insult to the memory of all those who have given their lives for us to continue.

If, on the other hand, it is true that these boys were collaborating with the enemy, it was her duty to eliminate them. Any African warrior, especially one in a position of authority and responsibility, who discovers treachery in our midst and does nothing about it, is as guilty as the traitor herself or himself.

Ostensibly in a state of shocked bewilderment, Winnie, herself asks the question: "Why must I be treated this way by the world media and the local media?" Why indeed? The answer is simple. They made her, so they believe they have the right and the power to destroy her. I am not saying that she is a celebrity without substance. Winnie Mandela is a remarkable Pan-Africanist warrior with a long history of political activism. Yet, in spite of her great depth of feeling for and her commitment to her people and her continent, she was promoted world wide by the Global Europe media machine as a means of selling the White-controlled ANC and Nelson Mandela to the nation and the world. This had the ultimate effect of excluding from or at least subordinating in the minds of the public, all other forces and personalities in the struggle for the liberation of Azania. After Nelson was released from physical bondage and he showed such extraordinary willingness to do their bidding, a militant, freedom-fighting Winnie was no longer necessary nor useful. Hence the beginning of the character assassination programme and the public separation.

In analysing this "documentary", knowing some of the history of CIA/FBI operations against the African community (see "The COINTELPRO Papers: documents from the FBI's Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States", and "Dirty Work 2: the CIA in Africa"), the role of the "missing witness" throws up some very serious questions. Answered individually each would seem quite curious but taken in context as part of the whole story would suggest that he was/is an agent provocateur. Let's look at just a few of these questions.

If anything this 29 year old "boy", Katiza Cebekhulu, says is true, for example, how did he go from Zululand to Soweto and gravitate straight to Winnie Mandela, unless he was on a mission? If such a photo of Winnie and a lover in bed did exist and he did find it, who could have taken it, for what purpose. And why would Winnie, a respectably married woman, keep such evidence lying around in a draw? What was he doing snooping around in his benefactor's bedroom? What was he looking for? For whom? Was his objective in discussing her business with other boys to help or hinder her?

In relation to Stompie's death, Cebekhulu says: "When Mrs. Mandela says: 'take him away,' that means the end. Like the way they take Stompie. When they say: 'take him away,' that is to kill.", yet he says he saw Winnie kill Stompie. How could Winnie kill Stompie and then tell them "take him away," to kill him? Was Cebekhulu the one who took Stompie away, killed him and left the body in an open area where it could be easily found? He said Stompie's head was soft. How did he know that without squeezing it or hitting it?

From his own and Mr. Sono's account, he was one of only two boys holding Lolo in the van when Mr. Sono looked in and saw his son. How come he doesn't know what happened to Lolo if, as he says, Mrs. Mandela told them to "take him away"?

With the death of Dr. Asvat, Cebekhulu confesses to having identified the target to the convicted Zulu murderers. Did he recruit them and negotiate with them, ostensibly on behalf of Mrs. Mandela? Knowing exactly who and where they were, did he then finger them for the police?

If it is true that Nelson Mandela was responsible for smuggling this worm out of the country through ANC channels, why did Mandela arrange for him to be hidden in a prison in Zambia? Could this have been an insurance policy against his wife who was by this time a major liability to him and his controllers?

In my quest to get a response from Winnie, I tried to contact her via the ANC's Internet web site. Their reply was that neither Winnie Mandela nor the ANC Women's League are mentioned on their list because they do not have an email address. They did not say why there was no email support facilities or snail mail addresses for them.

Nelson Mandela and the ANC are now supposed to be in charge of the country. If they are and they are really serious about "truth" and reconciliation they would open the files of all government departments, including the intelligence files of the security services and the secret police, to the people. That should clarify the picture of who did what to whom on whose behalf. If they can't/won't do that, they are either not in charge, not representing the interests of the people or they are not interested in revealing any kind of truth to the people about the behaviour of the apartheid gangsters, or all three.

Finally, it must be noted that the story of Nelson and Winnie was too much of "a great love story" to be left intact as an example for Global Africans to emulate so, with his connivance, she had to go in a blaze of violent controversy. And so continues the Eurocentric lie that African men and African women cannot and will not harmonise. When the story of Azania is finally told by the people of Azania and the name Nelson is spoken, if at all it is spoken, it will be mentioned merely in passing as the treacherous husband of Winnie Mandela, the Mother of the nation. May the Ancestors guide and protect her on our way.