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The Mandelas at Harlem’s Africa Square
▻https://africasacountry.com/2018/12/the-mandelas-at-harlems-africa-square

During the weeks that preceded Nelson and Winnie Mandela’s rally in Harlem, posters in storefront windows,

Winnie Mandela and the people’s doctor
▻https://africasacountry.com/2018/04/winnie-mandela-and-the-peoples-doctor

Although they did not realize it at the time, their fates were joined by the 1976

‘Winnie’–a portrait of South African masculinity and its discontents
▻http://africasacountry.com/2017/06/winnie-mandela-portrait-of-south-african-masculinity-and-its-discon

Remarkably, given its subject, the documentary film Winnie tells a story that has not yet been told. It isn’t that Winnie Mandela’s version of the events that led to the death of Stompie Sepei haven’t been part of the public record. Anyone who followed the news in the early 1990s knows about the case. In…

What it is to be #Winnie_Mandela
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I just finished reading a fascinating appetizer to #John_Carlin’s new book on #NELSON_MANDELA, Knowing Mandela, and it set me wondering what might be the place of solitude in the narration of South African #history. Some of the details of the failure of Nelson’s marriage to Winnie are public knowledge while others are revealed for […]

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#Winnie_Mandela on the South African exceptionalism embodied by #Nelson_Mandela
▻http://africasacountry.com/winnie-mandela-on-the-south-african-exceptionalism-embodied-by-nels

Mandela was extricated from the masses. He was made an idol, almost Jesus Christ! This is nonsense, a lot of nonsense. The freedom of this country was attained by the masses of this country. It was attained by the children who gave their lives in 1976, who faced machine guns with stones and dustbin lids. It was attained by women who were left to fend for their families. They fought the enemy! We are the ones who fought the enemy physically, who went out to face their bullets. The leaders were cushioned behind bars. They don’t know. They never engaged the enemy on the battlefield ...

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The problem with #Hollywood Mandelas
▻http://africasacountry.com/the-problem-with-hollywood-mandelas

More important than the inaccuracies (and makeup malfunctions) is what “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom” (which stars #Idris_Elba) erases. Among its elisions are the Cold War, communism (the South African Communist Party recently confirmed that Mandela was indeed a member, which had been something of an open secret for years), U.S. support for apartheid and the apartheid state’s sponsorship of so-called black-on-black violence in the 1980s and early 1990s. (In the #FILM, it seems that Winnie Mandela, painted as an irrational, Lady Macbeth–like character, was the cause of the violence, which in fact resulted from clashes between forces aligned with the African National Congress and state-funded proxy organizations like the nominally Zulu nationalist (...)

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No wonder #Winnie_Mandela objected to this
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Remember when #Darrell_Roodt’s “Winnie” first premiered in 2011 at Toronto #FILM Festival, and tanked? At the time Winnie Mandela herself declared that she didn’t like the film (unfortunately you have to watch Nadia Bilchik deliver this news)–she wasn’t consulted–and threatened to sue the producers. But Mandela needn’t have bothered. The lead actors, #Terrance_Howard and Jennifer […]

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Un #vagin géant en plein Johannesbourg - La Libre.be
▻http://www.lalibre.be/light/insolite/un-vagin-geant-en-plein-johannesbourg-522184f33570c7737d16f7b6

Le visiteur est accueilli par un #cri strident, puis par un #rire rauque... Il pénètre de plain-pied dans un vagin ! Une installation artistique à Johannesburg qui intrigue ou dérange les Sud-Africains, bien ancrés dans une culture #machiste dominante.

Lorsqu’on a demandé à l’artiste conceptuelle #Reshma_Chhiba, 30 ans, de concevoir une oeuvre d’#art pour une ancienne #prison de #femmes de l’époque de l’#apartheid, où Winnie Mandela fut incarcérée deux fois, elle y a vu une occasion de lancer au monde un message sur le véritable pouvoir des femmes.

Il s’agit d’un tunnel de 12 mètres de long, réplique d’un canal vaginal. L’entrée est bordée de minces bandes noires soyeuses qui évoquent les poils pubiens. L’intérieur est tapissé de velours capitonné d’un rouge éclatant.

« C’est un vagin qui crie, dans un espace où furent autrefois enfermées des femmes », explique l’artiste à l’AFP.

Le visiteur, pour entrer dans le vagin, est invité à se déchausser : « En posant vos chaussures, vous montrez que vous le respectez, que vous en faites un espace divin, un espace sacré », insiste-t-elle, émettant l’espoir que son oeuvre, à sa façon, apporte une contribution à la lutte contre le #viol, fléau social en #Afrique_du_Sud.

▻http://www.20minutes.fr/tv/afp-actus/82961-les-cris-du-vagin-geant-une-oeuvre-qui-choque-a-johannesburg