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ANC Tried to Purge Winnie Mandela
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
08 May 2018
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Winnie Mandela, the political activist and former wife of Nelson Mandela who died last month at age 81, “became a target for her unwavering support of the ideas contained in the Freedom Charter,” said Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, host of the “What’s At Stake” program on radio station WPFW, in Washington. The socialist-oriented document became a rallying point for the left-wing of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress party. “There’s a pattern” in the ANC “throughout the decades of purging those elements out,” said Benjamin Woods, a co-founder of Students Against Mass Incarceration.

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