The Herald

Remember the good in Winnie

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AS Shakespear­e observed through Mark Anthony in Julius Caesar, “the evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones”. I choose to remember the good – to think of Winnie Mandela as a wonderful woman, on equal terms with her husband whom she supported throughout his internment, suffering every indignity imaginable and on fire against injustices of white supremacy in her own country (“Winnie: The woman who kept Mandela legacy alive dies aged 81”, The Herald, April 3).

True, her hatred consumed her and she must have hated herself, too, to have performed the terrible acts she committed. But I refuse to regard the tragedy as anything but a salutary reminder for the rest of humankind that, tough as it may seem and however frustratin­g outcomes take longer to achieve, peaceful, non-violent methods are the only way to succeed in changing the world.

Janet Cunningham,

10 The Woodlands, Stirling.

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