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TWO BIOGRAPHIES - BOTH SIGNED AND/OR INSCRIBED BY WINNIE MANDELA 2 different publishers 1993 & 2003 1.) Gilbey, Emma - THE LADY, THE LIFE AND TIMES OF WINNIE MANDELA. Vintage, 1994 1st paperback : controversial & authoritative biography; paperback vg, bears a handwritten INSCRIPTION from WINNIE MANDELA :- "My dearest Michael, I am sorry I cannot append my signature to this gutter report of the apartheid regime which presumed to discredit the ANC through me. This rubbish was actually authored (sic) by the Security Branch of the day! But thank God! I brought them down ! My love always". This was written at the same time as the dedication in :- 2. Bezdrob, Anne Marie du Preez - WINNIE MANDELA, A LIFE. Zebra Press 2003; hardback Fine Fine dw, SIGNED INSCRIPTION "My Love and Best Wishes. God Bless. Winnie Mandela 25.9.2009." Both books were inscribed at the same time by Winnie Mandela to Michael Jackson.
Dealer Notes
Rare signatory of the wife of Nelson Mandela.
Winnie Mandela, was a South African anti-apartheid activist and the second wife of Nelson Mandela. She served as a Member of Parliament from 1994 to 2003, and from 2009 until her death, and was a deputy minister of arts and culture from 1994 to 1996. A member of the African National Congress (ANC) political party, she served on the ANC's National Executive Committee and headed its Women's League. Madikizela-Mandela was known to her supporters as the "Mother of the Nation".
In the mid-1980s, Madikizela-Mandela exerted a "reign of terror", and was "at the center of an orgy of violence" in Soweto, which led to condemnation by the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, and a rebuke by the ANC in exile. During this period, her home was burned down by residents of Soweto. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) established by Nelson Mandela's government to investigate human rights abuses found Madikizela-Mandela to have been "politically and morally accountable for the gross violations of human rights committed by the Mandela United Football Club", her security detail. Madikizela-Mandela endorsed the necklacing of alleged police informers and apartheid government collaborators, and her security detail carried out kidnapping, torture, and murder, most notoriously the killing of 14-year-old Stompie Sepei whose kidnapping she was convicted of.
Author Mandela, Winnie
Date 1994/2003
Binding Soft Covers/Hardback
Publisher Vintage/Zebra
Condition Near Fine
Pages 328/287

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