Quotes that Winnie Madikizela-Mandela will be remembered for

● “All what we fought for is not what is going on right now. It is a tragedy that he [Nelson Mandela] lived and saw what was happening. We cannot pretend like South Africa is not in crisis. Our country is in crisis and anyone who cannot see that is just bluffing themselves. – 2017 ● “I cannot forgive him [Mandela] for accepting the Nobel peace prize with his jailer [FW] De Klerk. Hand-inhand they went. Do you think De Klerk released him from the goodness of his heart? He had to. The times dictated it, the world had changed.” – 2010. ● “Mandela let us down, he agreed to bad deals for black people. The economy is very much ‘white’. He prefers to sip tea with the Queen, the biggest oppressor of black people, and have dinner with the Clintons.” – 2010

“I am the product of the ● masses of my country and the product of my enemy.” – 1996

“Together, hand-in-hand, with ● our matches and our necklaces, we shall liberate this country.” – 1986

● “The years of imprisonment hardened me … perhaps if you have been given a moment to hold back and wait for the next blow, your emotions wouldn’t be blunted as they have been in my case. When it happens every day of your life, when that pain becomes a way of life, I no longer have the emotion of fear, there is no longer anything I can fear. There is

nothing the government has not done to me. There isn’t any pain I haven’t known.” – 1987 ● “It is only when all black groups join hands and speak with one voice that we shall be a bargaining force which will decide its own destiny.” – 1976 ● “If you are to free yourselves you must break the chains of oppression yourselves. Only then can we express our dignity, only when we have liberated ourselves can we cooperate with other groups. Any acceptance of humiliation, indignity or insult is acceptance of inferiority.” – 1976 ● “To those who oppose us, we say, ‘Strike the woman, you strike the rock.” – 1966

“I will not allow the selfless ● efforts of my husband and his friends to be abandoned. I will continue the Struggle for a free and equal South Africa.” – 1962

“They think because they have ● put my husband on an island that he will be forgotten. They are wrong. The harder they try to silence him, the louder I will become!” – 1962

● “The overwhelming majority of women accept patriarchy unquestioningly and even protect it, working out the resultant frustrations not against men but against themselves in their competition for men as sons, lovers and husbands. Traditionally, the violated wife bides her time and off-loads her built-in aggression on her daughter-inlaw. So men dominate women through the agency of women themselves.” ● “I had so little time to love him. And that love has survived all these years of separation … perhaps if I’d had time to know him better I might have found a lot of faults, but I only had time to love him and long for him all the time.”

“I believe something is very ● wrong with the history of our country, and how we have messed up the ANC.”