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| Nelson and Winnie Mandela during their wedding |
I have a lot of respect for the contribution that Winnie Mandela has made in South Africa, in ensuring that the country becomes free from the yoke of apartheid. The struggle for South Africa's freedom was indeed a cumbersome and a protracted process. I also understand, the emotional pain she had to go through given the fact that her husband was jailed for such a long time and the struggle of trying to keep the family together during that time.
It must have been very hard for her. The divorce made things even worse because, here we have people who have been together for much of their trials and tribulations and then, bang!!! everything comes to an end. And this was a time when they were supposed to be together and rejoice over their triumph. As fate would have it something along the line didn't go well. But should Winnie Mandela go on a crusade to discredit Mandela by saying he betrayed the people by accepting the Noble peace prize alongside F.W De Klerk? Why was the policy of national reconciliation adopted in the first place? What was the purpose of the truth and reconciliation commission? Will living in a South Africa where people still have "unfinished business" push the country forward? Does Winnie know, the immense benefits, forgiveness has on the person forgiving than the one forgiven?
Is the reference to South Africa as a "Rainbow nation" a farce?
People of Mandela's calibre are rare and that's what makes people like him stand out. He is simply a great man.
