WHAT WINNIE SAID

WINNIE MADIKIZELAMANDELA: My contact with Lolo Sono was based on his relationship with Tebogo (Frans Tebogo Maluleke), one of the cadres I placed in Jerry Richardson’s house. (Maluleke was a gobetween between Madikizela-Mandela and a guerrilla unit operating underground, and at the time Madikizela-Mandela did not know that Richardson was a police informer.)

When asked by the evidence leader, advocate Ishmael Semenya, if she saw Sono, she admitted that she picked him up from his home and dropped him near near Mzimhlope, where Richardson was staying and where Tebogo was. Semenya: Did you see them ever again? Madikizela-Mandela: I have never seen them, I have never seen him again. Semenya: Did you know the friend, Shabalala Siboniso? Madikizela-Mandela: No, I don’t know that person. Semenya: Richardson says he killed these two gentlemen on your instruction? Madikizela-Mandela: That is ridiculous. Semenya: Mr Nicodemus Sono said the last time he saw his son, he was in a vehicle, in a kombi, wherein you were a passenger. What is your reaction to this? Madikizela-Mandela: It is true that he last saw his son with me in that kombi when I went to collect him to take him to Tebogo. Semenya: He states that at that time, Lolo Sono was injured? Madikizela-Mandela: have no idea why he is making up that fabrication. Safe to say I suppose, he is on this bandwagon to lead this false fabrications.

– Based on transcripts from the TRC Mandela Football Club hearings held

in 1997 and 1998

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