EDITORIAL: Framed from the grave
One of the most irresponsible, duplicitous and outright false narratives of what happened in the past has become an issue of the moment in the wake of the death of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
One of the great fiction writers of our age, Stephen King, once wrote, "When it comes to the past, everybody writes fiction." One of the most irresponsible, duplicitous and outright false narratives of what happened in the past has become an issue of the moment in the wake of the death of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. In a desperate effort to claim the memory of Madikizela- Mandela for themselves, both the ANC and the EFF have recast her history in ways that, not surprisingly, make them out to be heroes and everyone else villains. The controversy includes the publication of a documentary on Madikizela-Mandela’s life by a French film maker, Pascale Lamche. The documentary sought to examine her rise and fall within the movement and includes an interview with her subject in which Madikizela-Mandela claims some journalists "did the work of Stratcom", the apartheid-era organisation designed to weaken the forces fighting for democracy and freedom. In a follow up interview with Mandela by the...
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