#Winnie Mandela

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Born 26 September 1936 #Mama #Winnie #Nomzamo #Madikizela #Mandela #HappyHeavenlyBirthday #beadwork #iqhiya

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Nelson Mandela and his wife Winnie are accompanied by Jackie Kennedy Onassis and Ted Kennedy during a visit to the JFK Library and Museum

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Black on black love

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Winnie Madikizela Mandela. Freedom fighter.

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Mama

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WINNIE MADIKIZELA-MANDELA // POLITICIAN

“She was a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician, and the second wife of Nelson Mandela. She served as a Member of Parliament from 1994 to 2003, and from 2009 until her death and was a deputy minister for arts and culture from 1994 to 1996. A member of the African National Congress (ANC) political party, she served on the ANC’s National Executive Committee and headed its Women’s League. She was known to her supporters as the “Mother of the Nation”. She became Mandela’s public face during the 27 years he spent in jail. She was detained by apartheid state security services on various occasions, tortured, subjected to banning orders, and banished to a rural town, and she spent several months in solitary confinement. In the 1980s she became a controversial figure as she was condemned by the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa.”

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Jonny Steinberg – Winnie & Nelson

Over Nelson las ik al het een en ander, maar Winnie bleef meestal behoorlijk onderbelicht. En dat is met deze biografie rechtgezet. Portret van een huwelijk, is de ondertitel. Wat een huwelijk. Alleen het begin al. Hij was nog getrouwd, zij hield er een ander vriendje op na, want je wist maar nooit. Dan stiekem in een klein dorp, ver van alles, trouwen en een jaar later door een flinke…

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This is the most ignorant, uniformed and disgusting take I’ve ever seen from a fellow South African. Nearly every single person who has experienced South African apartheid agrees that what Palestine is experiencing is apartheid. Gazans are trapped in a tiny, overcrowded piece of land and are not allowed to leave except through an ass long process. In South Africa, black people were relegated to overcrowded, underdeveloped townships and were not allowed to leave it without using something called a dompass. If they didn’t, they would be subject to police and military brutality just like what happens in Gaza and the West Bank.

93% of all land in Israel is public and therefore belongs to either the state, the JNF or the the development authority. As a result Palestinians are blocked from leasing 80% of all land in Israel. During South African apartheid, black people were not allowed to buy or lease land in a plethora of areas.

Israel has a ban on family unification. This means that if one spouse is Israeli and the other is a Palestinian from the occupied territories, family unification is not allowed. Similarly, mixed race marriages and families were forbidden under apartheid.

These are just some similarities. From anon’s language it seems as though they are white as they made the ridiculous statement of considering the experiences of white people (THE ASSAILANTS) during an era they brought about and flourished in. “I don’t know a lot about apartheid”- then maybe you should shut your fucking mouth and stick to topics you do know.

Comparing tragedies in order to minimise or demean what happened is despicable, but comparing similarities is necessary or no one will ever learn anything from the mistakes of the past. 99% of all South Africans will be appalled at your statement that comparing the two situations is minimising the experiences of South Africans under the apartheid regime. Every single freedom fighter of ours like Nelson Mandela, Winnie Mandela, Walter Sisulu, OR Tambo, Ahmed Kathrada have all condemned Israeli apartheid. Palestinian resistance groups armed the MK (the armed wing of the ANC in case you didn’t learn that in school 🤡). Your argument is like saying comparing the Rwandan genocide to the Armenian genocide is minimising the suffering of the Rwandans. Get a fucking grip. You are a disgrace to our country, our history and our forefathers who fought for our freedom and rights. You are no true South African and I’m 100% certain that PW Botha would’ve LOVED you. Educate yourself before running your mouth like a fool.

I’ve been thinking about this for some time now and I was hesitant to post about it because I don’t want my voice muddying actual protests and testaments from people actually affected because I am not Jewish or Palestinian. And I don’t know if this is the right medium for this remark but I didn’t know where else to put it.

But as someone from South Africa, who grew up listening to first hand accounts of people, black and white, who lived through Apartheid, as someone who had to learn the horrific history of Apartheid and how sick and twisted that regime was. And even then I cannot claim to be an expert because even my school didn’t teach us every detail (which is sad because while it’s painful, it’s part of history and we must learn about it to never repeat it).

But knowing what I do know about Apartheid and seeing the after effects of it where I live… it really disturbs me to see the word Apartheid thrown around so carelessly to describe Israel. It’s not only untrue but trying to apply to Israel what the white minority government did in South Africa to harm and have power over people of colour in every aspect of life, feels like it only does a massive disservice to actual Apartheid victims. Real people were killed and tortured and suppressed in terms of marriage, to where they could live, who they could love, what they could learn in schools, having the right to vote, having curfews and time restrictions or else risk persecution and brutality…. It just leaves me speechless that people so easily want to wash away the real tragedy of Apartheid because it’s a big sounding buzzword. Calling Israel an Apartheid state, in my mind, does nothing except invalidate the real victims of that horrific regime and it makes me sick.

I’m sorry for ranting like that but I just cannot wrap my head around it at all. It shouldn’t take a rocket scientist to see that the Apartheid regime and Israel’s government are in no way the same.

This is an extremely important perspective, and it would be a great help if you would be willing to share it openly.

There have been many voices from South Africa rejecting the "apartheid" comparison. It is important to show would-be activists that they are appropriating and disrespecting other peoples' suffering.

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I'm having a Mandela Effect moment... Did Pooh really say that was his favorite day? 😂

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The main gang that slowly grows.

cesar toress(mandela catalog), vincent and rody(dead plate), winnie and Augustine(cold front), also angelica and forcas(eloquent continence)

(more fandoms soon to be/are in the rp but still- main guys)