WINNIE MADIKIZELA MANDELA

Political leader, former wife of South African President Nelson Mandela, now heads the Women's Movement Party African National Congress.

Career modern political leader, especially as odious as Winnie Mandela, usually associated with scandals. A person gets used to the popularity and there is no worse punishment for him than the rest, indifference press. Verily, the most severe drug is not curable - glory. To Winnie popularity collapsed immediately, with an unexpected marriage, but it was still not the kind of fame, which, in its assumptions, was worthy of such a woman as she was.

As a child she grew up in harsh conditions, having lost his mother early. Nine years old Winnie was forced to take care of three brother. The family prevailed cult of power and discipline. Father, a history teacher, admired the German accuracy and thoroughness so that my daughter got its name from the Germanic "Winifred", although her real African name - Nomzamo. For seventeen years she was seen closed, it is extremely selfish. She went from his village in search of happiness capital - Johannesburg.

At the University she entered, but soon came to a fraternity, followers of the Trotskyist-leaning political views. She had to finish school social workers, followed by Vinnie got a job as an assistant in the hospital for social care. Its activity has been associated with people in need, and the girl with all the fervor of youth rushed to the protection of orphaned and sick. Already in those years she was able to act decisively, once the doctor gave the patient newsletter for three weeks. The owner of the enterprise, where she worked, was extremely dissatisfied and demanded to cancel the exemption. Winnie, without hesitation, wrote a letter to the employer: "You must consider the opinion of a specialist. The decision was made and is not subject to cancellation. " The owner was forced to make concessions to the service of charity.

Shy and unsociable, Winnie even in those years found a remarkable organizational skills: able to rally the team, get his, to discipline others. By the time Winnie dating her future husband the name of Nelson Mandela symbolized the aspirations of black people in South Africa, he was extremely popular, was known as the popular favorite, a national hero. Naturally, she did not believe his luck when, after a brief acquaintance known throughout the country leader sent her car to the hospital with orders to report immediately to the subject matter of assistance from the hospital staff for his organization.

The first meeting at the beginning, as expected, took place in a restaurant, but Mandela was constantly attacked by some people, journalists, friends resorted to for advice. Indian dishes, which were their severity in wonder village girl Winnie, it out of his throat, the more she was numb from so many prying eyes. In the end, Nelson took the girl out of town. They walked, and Vinny reverently listened to the leader. In parting, Mandela kissed the girl, saying: "A wonderful day was today. " With this "wonderful day" and began their regular meetings, and Winnie never know when it will be called to "the highest disgusted. " For it would send a car and drove to the meeting place - usually at any meeting or to the gym, where Winnie was to witness the workout Nelson.

Photo — «Winnie Madikizela Mandela»

The proposal also followed without any explanation in love and very peculiar. Vinny just brought to the dressmaker, where she was to order a wedding dress Apparently, if the groom in advance could remove measurements with the bride, she would have learned about the wedding dress on brought by. The next was available immediately go to the country to his father and announce the upcoming celebration. Winnie long time thinking about their feelings for Nelson, the authority of the groom suppressed all other considerations. The leader wanted to have at home a beautiful young woman. What may be questionable. On the former wife Winnie Mandela did not know anything, and did not want to know. Nelson divorced, without devoting his bride into the secrets of the former family life.

After the wedding was a long lonely evenings and sometimes nights, when his wife did not know where Nelson. In their family were not supposed to ask such questions. It is clear that her husband worked for the benefit of the people, hiding from the police. Winnie herself, having engaged in political work, was soon dismissed. After the trial of his party Mandela went underground for a long time. The first weeks and months after the disappearance of Nelson have been a living hell for Winnie. It was only a shadow of her husband, and his sudden loss of a woman deprived of any support. However, Winnie was not the weak. Soon she learned to drive a car, regained contact with former friends and take an active political activities. Gradually she began to notice that pleasant to be not only "his wife Mandela, but also the most to win the audience, to shine in front of a crowd. With her husband she rarely dare insert the word in political debate, is now due to circumstances Winnie became the authority.

Meeting with Nelson occurred from time to time. Sometimes Winnie appeared an unknown person, who without a word takes her to an unknown destination. The risk that its taken away provocateurs or just murderers, has always been, but for the sake of meeting with her husband Vinnie was solved in the unknown journey. Luckily, they ended wonderfully. A long agonizing love, the illusion of home comfort under the roof of another house and the parting . . . Two tiny daughters everywhere accompanied by his "wife-Barnett. "

In the early 1960 Mandela was nevertheless arrested. The court sentenced him to life imprisonment. Of course, the hope is the last person leaves, but Mandela understood only too well that as it may be he will spend in prison for a long time, perhaps so long that the relationship with his wife interrupted. Winnie, a young, beautiful, famous woman, left alone, and nobody would be able to control it.

First, she tried to keep an aura of martyrs and faithful friend. Winnie understood perfectly well that without these attributes, the "holy" does not achieve popularity. And her social status and inner strength allows a woman to continue the work of her husband. Together with women's committees, Winnie was engaged in charitable activities, political statements and dramatically responded to any harassment of the authorities.

The most difficult period of her life was solitary confinement, which lasted 17 months. She recalled that the most tormented of enforced idleness and night interrogations.

Photo — «Winnie Madikizela Mandela»

One day, suffering from loneliness, Winnie caught two ants, and played with them for as long as the insects do not escape. During one interrogation, a woman fainted from lack of sleep. Ended up in prison because Winnie was acquitted, which gave quite a reasonable excuse its enemies to note that not all in vain conclusion wife Mandela ends well. Was not she mixed in a betrayal of their supporters?

The subsequent thirty years, Winnie carefully visited her husband in prison on Robben Island. Goodbye every time occurred through bulletproof glass, and the conversation was carried on an intercom. Only the eldest daughter allowed to embrace her father since she became the wife of the king of the neighboring state and had diplomatic immunity. But the "martyrdom" was over, Nelson was safely released to freedom, was elected president of the country and . . . with a terrible scandal broke up with former loyal friend. Truly, "copper pipe" reveal the essence of human relations. The drama was played out. A new play - a farce.

Today, Winnie the accused of all mortal sins: from libel and fraud to extortion and murder. Series of scandals surrounding Winnie Mandela, no end of gossip so much that in the end the president had to fire her from the ministerial post. Besides successfully stepped Balzac Age Winnie in 1992, was caught in an affair with his young lawyer. The entire country had read the press caught her passionate letters to her lover, which were written almost simultaneously with decorous letters to her husband, a political prisoner.

But all these stories were just noisy shadow of the shock that went through South Africa, when it turned out that Winnie was involved in the murder of fourteen-year-activist liberation movement, punished harsh associates for treason - a case, as is known, has long studied Fyodor Mikhailovich in The Possessed. "

In 1980 Winnie under the pretext of education for homeless young people organized in a black suburb of Johannesburg football club. Later, it became apparent that "football" is just a gang of bodyguards, "the mother of the nation", feeling of impunity. Murder of the teenager claimed a Johnson, the number of coach of the club. " And although the crime happened in Winnie's house, she managed to escape a fine, had fabricated an alibi that on the day of her murder was not in town.

However, in late 1997 in England were published by the testimony of another "player" who claimed that she was not only present at the execution of young men, but personally dealt two blows with a knife. Hearings in the case resumed.

It is hard to say what the outcome of yet another scandal surrounding Winnie Mandela, but the facts are lies and violence literally rocked South Africa. Political and personal biography of Winnie is not finished - judging by their actions, this woman is not burdened by strict moral principles and tools for achieving the goal does not choose. In conclusion, we have only to recall the famous oriental tale about heroes, kills the dragon and belonged to the palaces of the conquered. As soon as the hero cast a look at "draconian" wealth, he himself began to grow claws, spreading jaws, engorge eyes. In our view, there is a world culture more ominous, eerie and hopeless tale . . .