From the Sunday Times 25 years ago

SACKED ANC official Dali Mpofu claims a powerseeking cabal within the organisation is trying to destroy Mrs Winnie Mandela with a smear campaign, including allegations that she is his lover. Mr Mpofu, 29, a close friend of Mrs Mandela, is to sue the ANC for unfair labour practice in dismissing him from his post as the organisation’s deputy head of social welfare.

He claimed allegations that he and Mrs Mandela were lovers were part of a five-year smear campaign against her from within the ANC, and included such people as lawyer Azhar Cachalia, ANC secretary-general Cyril Ramaphosa and ANC NEC member Mohammed Valli Moosa.