As I watch Mom Winnie's documentary, it's the more I'm convinced that the two people who the apartheid regime feared the most for the influence they could potentially have on Black people and leading a true revolution that could emancipate us, were her and Prof Robert Sobukwe, probably not do much Tata Mandela. Hence they devised all means to crush them.
These two are the only ones who were made to live alone for long periods of time, under their watchful eye and monitoring, Sobukwe in prison, Mom Winnie in prison solitary confinement and outside, in Brandfort. Sobukwe spent many years isolated in a separate house on Robben Island, without interaction with other prisoners, so much that it is said that at some point he had forgotten to speak, he lost his speech because he wasn't talking to anyone for years, except when a guard came to bring him food. This, while other prisoners, Nelson Mandela, Sisulu and others were in communal prison where they could meet and talk and work together outside in the quary. Sobukwe's loss of speech was discovered by Helen Suzman one day when she went to visit him.
It broke my heart to hear that the boers deliberately left a crate of alcohol outside Mom Winnie's house every evening in Brandford to entice her to drink in her state of isolation, and she did, to a point of overdoing it. Just that kind of scheming to break someone's mental strength was diabolical. I'm glad that in the end, they did not succeed to break her down completely. She regained her strength and remained the strong fearlrss Winnie, broken but not conquered. I was still only on Episode 2 but I'm angry already.
winnie mandela, robert sobukwe , steve biko, chris hani , and solomon mahlangu deserved far greater recognition than history has afforded them. true freedom fighters and revolutionaries in every sense of the word !!!
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.