Winnie Mandela

Date: 14 May, 1991

Winnie Nomzamo Mandela, ANC activist and later president of the African National Congress Women's League (1993) and deputy minister of arts and culture (1994) was sentenced to six years for her 'complicity' in the kidnapping and beating of four youths. One of these youths, fourteen year old Stompie Seipei, was later found dead from his injuries nearby the crime scene. Mandela's lawyer appealed against the court verdict and the sentence was later suspended by the Appeal Court. The actual crime was committed by her 'thuggish' bodyguards dubbed the 'Mandela United Football Club'. In 1997, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) reached a verdict that Madikizela-Mandela (the name she used after her divorce from former President Nelson Mandela in 1996) was guilty and had played a role in the killing of Stompie Seipei.

Click here to read the outcome of the TRC on the kidnapping and murder of Stompie Seipei For activities of Mandela United football Club, Click here.

Sources:

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/04/25/mandela.sentencing/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/14/newsid_2863000/2863807.stm http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=828&id=773242004 http://africanhistory.about.com/od/may/a/td0514.htm