JOHANNESBURG -- South Africa's governing party, the African National Congress, said Wednesday that its leaders would talk to Nelson Mandela's ex-wife, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, when she returned from abroad about published remarks attributed to her in which she caustically described him as a figurehead who had made a bad deal with the country's...
Jennifer Hudson has been cast in the title role of ''Winnie,'' a film about Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the activist and former wife of Nelson Mandela, Variety reported. The screenplay, based on a biography by Anne Marie du Preez Bezdrob, was written by André Pieterse, Paul L. Johnson, and Darrell J. Roodt, a South African filmmaker who will also...
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (født 26. september 1936 i Bizana) er/var Borgerretsforkæmper i organisationen African National Congress (ANC) i Sydafrika, som kæmper for de indfødtes rettigheder.
Gift med Nelson Mandela i 1958 og skilt igen i 1996.
Winnie Mandela blev den 25. april 2003 idømt fem års fængsel for bedrageri og tyveri for knap en million kr. Bedrageriet blev blandt andet begået gennem ANC's kvindeliga.
Det var hendes anden længere fængselsdom, da hun også i 1991 blev dømt for bortførelsen af en 14-årig dreng. Drengen blev senere fundet død.