Readers' Blog: Winnie Mandela not mourned by her one-time followers
The death of Winnie Mandela, the anti-apartheid activist and ex-wife of revolutionary Nelson Mandela, does not seem to be causing much grief for her previous supporters (having listened to a Dunnes Stores worker, who had taken part in the South Africa produce boycott of 1984, on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland).
As a person who signed the ‘Free Nelson Mandela’ petition (at the behest of my four children), which was placed on the protest table outside South Africa House (in Trafalgar Square, London), back in the late 1980s (and having had my photograph taken by one of the ‘bouncers’ on guard at the entrance of the SA High Commission), I was dismayed at the way South Africa regressed politically in the years after apartheid had been abolished in 1994.
