[Published: Saturday March 13 2010]
Winnie denies maligning Mandela
Pretoria, 13 March-(ANA)-Winnie Mandela, the former wife of ex-President Nelson Mandela, has denied giving an interview accusing him of letting down black South Africans.
Ms Madikizela-Mandela said the article, published in London's Evening Standard newspaper this week, was a fabrication.
The article was written by Nadira Naipaul, the wife of Nobel prize-winning author VS Naipaul.
The Mandelas, who were both leaders in the struggle against South Africa's minority white rule, divorced in 1996.
The article quoted Ms Madikizela-Mandela as saying her former husband had "agreed to a bad deal for the blacks".
She was also quoted as saying that the Mandela name was "an albatross around the necks of my family". (ANA)
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