In a strongly-worded attack she claimed that Nelson Mandela had failed to help the poor, instead becoming a "corporate foundation" who only ever appeared in public to raise money for the ANC political party. Mrs Mandela, 73, also criticised his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize with FW de Klerk, the former prime minister who had Mandela jailed, according to the Daily Mail. She said: "This name Mandela is an albatross around the necks of my family. "You all must realise that Mandela was not the only man who suffered. There were many others, hundreds who languished in prison and died." She said her former husband went into prison as a revolutionary, but had changed. "Mandela let us down. He agreed to a bad deal for the blacks. Economically we are still on the outside. The economy is very much 'white'. "I cannot forgive him for going to receive the Nobel with his jailer de Klerk. Hand in hand they went. Do you think de Klerk released him from the goodness of his heart? "He had to. The times dictated it, the world had changed." The Mandelas were married for 38 years. They divorced in 1996. Mrs Mandela also hit out at the Truth and Reconciliation Committee - which she appeared before in 1997 and which implicated her in gross violations of human rights. "Look at this Truth and Reconciliation charade. He should never have agreed to it," she said. "What good does the truth do? How does it help anyone to know where and how their loved ones were killed or buried?" The comments were made in an interview with Nadira Naipaul, the wife of novelist V S Naipaul.Winnie Mandela accuses Nelson of letting down South Africa's blacks
Winnie Mandela has accused her former husband of letting down black people living in South Africa.
Tuesday, 9 March 2010
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