Country Quote by Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

“We cannot pretend we do not have problems; we cannot pretend things are not wrong in our country. A lot of things are wrong.”

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

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Mandela did go to prison, and he went in there as a burning revolutionary. But look what came out. Mandela let us down.

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The solution of this country's problems lies in black hands.

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Nelson was locked up on Robben Island, and wives like me had been warned we would bring our husbands home as corpses from that…

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I have a good relationship with Mandela. But I am not Mandela's product. I am the product of the masses of my country and…

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I don't say we should have performed miracles, but surely there ought to have been a difference between the apartheid regime and governance of…

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Sport has the power to change the world,

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When I was born, my mother was very disappointed. She wanted a son. I knew that from a very early age. So I was…

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This name Mandela is an albatross around the necks of my family.

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I learned to deal with the police... to be tough... to survive.

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To me, David Astor was a freedom fighter. To me, he wasn't just a journalist; he was a freedom fighter.

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