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[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)

FA/ANA/13 March 2010--------

 


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