Minister Nomvula Mokonyane condemns stratcom narrative on Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
3 Apr 2018
Minister Mokonyane has noted reports from a local broadcaster and some international news agencies which continue to use an apartheid era narrative to cast aspersions on the revolutionary character of Mama Nomzamo Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.
The narrative is not only a mischievous distortion it is devoid of truth and a clear example of the lack journalistic research amongst the media establishment. The attempt to present the legacy of this great liberation struggle stalwart as a compromised and divisive history is reminiscent of the stratcom strategy to undermine what was a fight by Mama Winnie and her generation against a brutal apartheid regime whose killing machinery found enemies in children and adults alike on the sole basis of them being black.
In addition to the apartheid era style distortion, the narrative on the liberation stalwart is also grossly gendered and seeks to cast aside that Winnie Mandela was a freedom fighter first and foremost and not merely a wife to our leader Nelson Mandela.
"Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, was her own person the notion of boxing her has former President Mandela ex's wife is unfortunate and deliberately intended to undermine the woman, Winnie Mandela" said Minister Nomvula Mokonyanye.