“They hated her because they hate African women,” said Malema while addressing a crowd gathered at a party rally.
“They say all manner of nonsense about Winnie… they accuse her of many things.”
He said the actions of which she was accused, were actions committed by many men, but they were never condemned for them like she was.
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“Let me give you one example: they say Winnie Mandela killed Stompie Seipei.”
He said that Madikizela-Mandela had never done so, and police had declared there was no evidence against her in the case of the 14-year-old boy who was murdered in 1989.
‘Let’s say she killed him…’
However, he said that even though Madikizela-Mandela was innocent of the accusation, the crowd should hypothesise on the gender bias in the situation.
“Let’s say for a second that Winnie Mandela killed Stompie Seipei. Why are they destroying her and saying all sorts of things because of this one child when in exile a lot of people were killed?”
He said in exile “impimpis (informants)… sellouts were taken to a firing squad”.
“They were killed under OR Tambo… Joe Modise under Chris Hani’s watch. They were commanders of uMkhonto weSizwe.”
Yet, he said: “Today they are not saying you must hate OR Tambo because people were killed in the camps in his name.
“Why?” he asked to the crowd.
“Because he is a man; because he is a soldier; because he is a commander – and it is understandable that there will be casualties. But when it happens under a woman, it’s a problem because a woman must not do what is supposed to be done by a man.
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“That is patriarchy.
“That is unacceptable.”
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