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This new Winnie Madikizela-Mandela documentary, “The Trials of Winnie Mandela”, is an execrable travesty!
Two Mandela granddaughters took Zionist money to film this awful production about Madikizela-Mandela.
Ivor Ichikowitz, a questionable arms dealer and rabid Zionist with deep ties to the Israeli defence industry, funded this hogwash through his Foundation.
No self-respecting person with some modicum of political consciousness and moral probity would accept blood money from Ichikowitz.
The documentary features moral cretins like Palesa Morodu who supports Gaza genocide; including known apartheid security informants; trash journalists like Mondli Makhanya; as well as United Democratic Front (UDF) activists who actively undermined Madikizela-Mandela’s standing at a time when solidarity from comrades was essential.
The production is a grotesque desecration of Madikizela-Mandela’s enduring revolutionary legacy through a profoundly flawed attempt at presenting a balanced historical discourse.
It resurrects the pure and unadulterated STRATCOM filth that should have been left dead and buried in the past, and need not be juxtaposed with Madikezela-Mandela’s trials and tribulations under the apartheid system and her just fight for the liberation of her people. It dilutes and undermines her legacy.
I find the production an ethical aberration that the politically unmoored granddaughters deemed acceptable for their own personal gain. It is shameful.
Madikizela-Mandela was no saint by any stretch of imagination but to sully her revolutionary legacy with repetitions of historical apartheid falsehoods leaves a bitter taste.
This is how you do a documentary. Unbiased and her grandbabies did a great job approaching her story from a point of love while asking difficult questions. Winnie’s story is far from perfect but she went through so much.
With my own limited and humble exposure to Mama Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, I find myself listening for voices that are no longer here to speak; those of her daughter Zindzi Mandela and her granddaughter Zoleka Mandela. Their absence in this documentary leaves a gap.
Like many, I am disappointed. What was presented as Mama Winnie telling her story in her own voice feels, instead felt like a narrowing of that voice. To reduce a life as expansive, as politically charged and as symbolically loaded as hers to the Stompie matter and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission is, at best, incomplete.
Yes, that chapter must be confronted, history demands honesty. However, when a singular narrative is repeatedly foregrounded, it begins to function less as reflection and more as framing. Sociologically, this is how complex figures are flattened through a selective emphasis that privileges scandal, controversy over context, and unbalanced individual moments over the broader political machinery within which those moments occurred. This documentary stripped away the conditions of apartheid brutality, the gendered nature of her persecution, and the burden she carried as both symbol and human being.
Mama Winnie was not a footnote in the struggle. She was a central force within it. A woman who embodied defiance under a system designed to break both body and spirit. To tell her story responsibly requires a wider lens. A lens that holds contradiction, yes, but also honours scale, influence and historical positioning.
Alas. For many of us who lived through those years and for those who have studied and understood them. No selective retelling will dislodge what we know to be true. She remains, unequivocally, one of the most recognisable faces and formidable forces of our liberation struggle.
Long live Mama Winifred Nomzamo Nobandla Madikizela-Mandela.
PS. Oh but I loved her Miranda Priestly moment “The little boys and girls of Lusaka” 🤣🤣🤣Be ku shoda nje u rha sies
It was today when I found out Neliswa (that's her name right 🤭) was disqualified....not living under a rock but have an actual LIFE.
They did us dirty with not airing the daily shows.
All the best Wanda & The Don 👏🏾
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