The End of Apartheid - South Africa’s Human Spirit

S4E5: portraits of truth - mummy


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Officially, it was called the hearing into the Mandela United Football Club. Unofficially, everyone referred to it as the Winnie hearing. For nine days between November and December 1997, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela faced a battery of journalists in Johannesburg at the Truth Commissionís special hearing. "She created her own vigilante gang" out of the Football Club, said one of her fellow top ANC members. But Madikizela-Mandela, one of the most potent symbols of apartheid resistance, appeared unfazed. Throughout the hearing, she was dressed elegantly, wearing her trademark sunglasses and flashy gold rings. Antjie Samuel and Kenneth Makatees report.


Transcript: http://www.sabctruth.co.za/sabctruth/portraitsright.htm#mummy 


my boy, my boy

Transcript: http://www.sabctruth.co.za/sabctruth/portraitsright.htm#my


I'm taking this dog away

Transcript: http://www.sabctruth.co.za/sabctruth/portraitsright.htm#taking


portraits of truth - former vlakplaas askari joe mamasela and former liberation icon winnie madikizela-mandela as enigmas


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Additional Music by Whitesand - Do You Feel What I Feel? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM7qA8n9S88&list=RDkQSoW1VnkH4&index=47 


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