The Lady

The Life and Times of Winnie Mandela

Bibliographic Data

ID9820564
AuthorsGail M Gerhart (corresponding author), Gail Gerhart, Emma Gilbey
Year1994
Volume73
Issue3
Pages175
Publication date1994-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueForeign Affairs (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0015-7120 • E-ISSN: 2327-7793
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/20046726
OpenAlexW623783132
LanguageEN
Citations received8

This biography is of the most popular and dangerous woman in South Africa, Winnie Mandela. She was born on September 26 1934, the fourth daughter of a prosperous family in the Transkei. Theirs was not a penniless childhood. Gilbey traces her growing political involvement and her marriage to Nelson Mandela in 1959. They were together for less than a year before Nelson Mandela was imprisoned and Winnie's true political life began. It is subsequently a story of protest, of jails, of banning, of Soweto life and the tragic formation of Mandela United. Winnie Mandela was convicted of authorizing kidnapping and abduction, and as an accessory to crimes of violence. She is appealing against this, but her marriage to Mandela is over

Development economics · Economic history · Economics · Political science · History · Legal Issues in South Africa · South African History and Culture

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