Why Winnie Mandela was right

Sipho Ngcobo argues that a lot of what Madikizela-Mandela said is true to this day.

JOHANNESBURG - Storm in a tea cup?

That's how South Africa greeted Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's outburst this week.

In an interview with Nadira Naipaul, the wife of novelist VS Naipaul, Madikizela-Mandela allegedly roasted her ex-husband and former President Nelson Mandela, calling him the shadow of a freedom fighter who first went to prison, who got a bad deal for black people on his release and the man who disgraced himself by accepting the Nobel Peace Prize along-side FW De Klerk (which she now denies).

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu was not spared for his role in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

The list of attacks is long.

The result: South Africa went beserk, basically describing her as a messed up and dangerous populist who is nothing but out-of-touch.

Well, it is difficult to analyse some of the comments she ma...