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11 Apr 2018

GALLERY: Winnie memorial - Honouring the Mother of the Nation
Crowds gathered in Orlando Stadium in Soweto for the official national memorial service for Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, and the EFF held a separate service in Brandfort, Free State.

11 Apr 2018

'I'm here as a friend of Mama Winnie' – De Lille at EFF memorial

Patricia de Lille attended the EFF's memorial service for Winnie Madikizela-Mandela as a friend of the struggle stalwart, the Cape Town mayor said.

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11 Apr 2018

'Don't act like ungrateful children' - Mam' Winnie's grandson to her detractors

Don't behave like ungrateful children, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's grandson Bambatha Mandela told the late struggle icon's detractors at her memorial service in Orlando, Soweto, on Wednesday.

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11 Apr 2018

Winnie an indestructible rock against apartheid - Mabuza

Deputy President David Mabuza has paid tribute to fallen struggle icon Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and described her as an indestructible rock against apartheid and a special person, who sacrificed her life for the whole nation despite being treated with contempt.

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11 Apr 2018

Mama Winnie's life's work of returning the land to the people non-negotiable - Duarte

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's "life's work of returning the land to the people is non-negotiable", ANC deputy secretary general Jessie Duarte said.

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11 Apr 2018

#EFFWinnieMandelaMemorialService Malema: Long live the undying spirit of Mama Winnie Madikizela-Mandela long live.
— #RIPWinnieMandela (@EFFSouthAfrica) April 11, 2018

11 Apr 2018

#EFFWinnieMandelaMemorialService Malema: I want to thank the spiritual leaders that joined us and also the leadership of the ANC. Just because the leaders of the ANC joined us does not mean we will not criticise because we are not gossiping, we are telling the truth.
— #RIPWinnieMandela (@EFFSouthAfrica) April 11, 2018

11 Apr 2018

#EFFWinnieMandelaMemorialService Malema: The sufferings of our people should not discourage but they should be the fire that gives us will to continue to fight.
— #RIPWinnieMandela (@EFFSouthAfrica) April 11, 2018

11 Apr 2018

#EFFWinnieMandelaMemorialService Malema: We came to Brandfort to expose to the world the corruption that the government has purported against the people of Brandfort.
— #RIPWinnieMandela (@EFFSouthAfrica) April 11, 2018

11 Apr 2018

#EFFWinnieMandelaMemorialService Malema: Yet, during a mourning period in our homes we do not switch on the television, we do not play music and we do not drink alcohol. So what is a mourning period in South Africa?
— #RIPWinnieMandela (@EFFSouthAfrica) April 11, 2018

11 Apr 2018

#EFFWinnieMandelaMemorialService Malema: They say we are in a mourning period but it is business as usual. One was in Limpopo busy dancing on stage like Chomie.
— #RIPWinnieMandela (@EFFSouthAfrica) April 11, 2018

11 Apr 2018

Malema questions what a mourning period is. It means the nation is mourning, he says.

“What must I do as a South African?”

He says a league must be suspended, that is why Kaizer Chiefs is losing.

"We need cultural revolution in South Africa."

11 Apr 2018

#EFFWinnieMandelaMemorialService Malema: There is no white person that has been forced out of their property, not even by the EFF. All we have done is to occupy land that was unoccupied whilst we wait for the fertile lands to be given back to us.
— #RIPWinnieMandela (@EFFSouthAfrica) April 11, 2018

11 Apr 2018

#EFFWinnieMandelaMemorialService Malema: I am worried about how the journalists report on the land. They are not countering the rhetoric that there is a white genocide in South Africa and yet there is no case in South Africa of any white person killed because we want land.
— #RIPWinnieMandela (@EFFSouthAfrica) April 11, 2018

11 Apr 2018

#EFFWinnieMandelaMemorialService Malema: That's why we must stop saying we want jobs, we must say we want the land and we will work the land.
— #RIPWinnieMandela (@EFFSouthAfrica) April 11, 2018

11 Apr 2018

#EFFWinnieMandelaMemorialService Malema: That is why we are custodians of alcohol because we do not have the land.
— #RIPWinnieMandela (@EFFSouthAfrica) April 11, 2018

11 Apr 2018

#EFFWinnieMandelaMemorialService Malema: All of us here have committed a sin because in African culture when someone matures into adulthood they are given land as a symbol of responsibility but that was not done.
— #RIPWinnieMandela (@EFFSouthAfrica) April 11, 2018

11 Apr 2018

#EFFWinnieMandelaMemorialService Malema: We are saying we want the majority of people on this land must own the land. And that the minority be allocated land by us, the owners of the land. No the other way around.
— #RIPWinnieMandela (@EFFSouthAfrica) April 11, 2018

11 Apr 2018

#EFFWinnieMandelaMemorialService Malema: Mama wanted the land. Just like the EFF. We don't hate white people, they have naturalised. They are like the tree and the grass here. We are saying to the white people share the land.
— #RIPWinnieMandela (@EFFSouthAfrica) April 11, 2018

11 Apr 2018

#EFFWinnieMandelaMemorialService Malema: They criticise Mama for her house but Mama built her house so that she was never tempted to move to the suburbs and leave her people.
— #RIPWinnieMandela (@EFFSouthAfrica) April 11, 2018

11 Apr 2018

#EFFWinnieMandelaMemorialService Malema: Don't be a wheelbarrow. Mama Winnie taught us to be truthful, just like I am. It's either you like me or you don't and that is because I always tell the truth.
— #RIPWinnieMandela (@EFFSouthAfrica) April 11, 2018

11 Apr 2018

#EFFWinnieMandelaMemorialService Malema: Winnie Mandela is not a wheelbarrow. Not a wheelbarrow that you would leave and come back from exile and use her and push her. She was a thinker.
— #RIPWinnieMandela (@EFFSouthAfrica) April 11, 2018

11 Apr 2018

She wanted to live among the people of Soweto.

We don’t even know what the real issues our people are facing.

Mama had a constant interaction with the people of Soweto, she knew what issues they were facing. She didn’t hear about it in the media.

11 Apr 2018

Don’t be wheelbarrows, be thinkers like Winnie. Mama taught us not to live a lie.

Speak your mind, express yourself but do it with humility.

11 Apr 2018

#EFFWinnieMandelaMemorialService Today she is called a chaos by an arrivalists, by people who made it into the struggle by coincidence.
— #RIPWinnieMandela (@EFFSouthAfrica) April 11, 2018

11 Apr 2018

You touch our mother you touch us, Malema warns.

11 Apr 2018

#EFFWinnieMandelaMemorialService Malema: Gwede comes here to tell Mama Norah about Winnie Mandela. We have come here to say thank you to Mama Norah for protecting Mama Winnie.
— #RIPWinnieMandela (@EFFSouthAfrica) April 11, 2018

11 Apr 2018

We came here to say thank you, in the presence of the people of Brandford. Thank you for protecting mama.

If it was not for you this freedom would not have been realised.

11 Apr 2018

#EFFWinnieMandelaMemorialService Malema: George Fivaz was commissioned in order to investigate Mama and discredit her so that she could not rise in the ranks.
— #RIPWinnieMandela (@EFFSouthAfrica) April 11, 2018

11 Apr 2018

#EFFWinnieMandelaMemorialService Malema: When we stand here to speak about Winnie Mandela we do not seek cameras because we knew her, we cared for her and she cared for us.
— #RIPWinnieMandela (@EFFSouthAfrica) April 11, 2018

11 Apr 2018

#EFFWinnieMandelaMemorialService Malema: What we are learning from Mama Winnie Mandela is that women are important.
— #RIPWinnieMandela (@EFFSouthAfrica) April 11, 2018

11 Apr 2018

#EFFWinnieMandelaMemorialService Malema: The reason why we don't listen to women is because they are reasonable. There is no woman who has ever started a World War. There is no woman who has bombed a nation for oil. All these unreasonable acts committed by men.
— #RIPWinnieMandela (@EFFSouthAfrica) April 11, 2018

11 Apr 2018

Women make better soldiers, leaders, they are mothers.

Winnie Mandela was a mother. We ate her food, slept at her house. We know the love from Winnie Mandela. She was a caring mother who would do anything for her children, Malema says.

She didn't care what came her way. In everything she did, she wanted to protect her children.

11 Apr 2018

#EFFWinnieMandelaMemorialService Malema: The first president of South Africa must come from the EFF so that we demonstrate that we treat women as equals; we are not like the ANC who use women as tools in bedrooms.
— #RIPWinnieMandela (@EFFSouthAfrica) April 11, 2018

11 Apr 2018

#EFFWinnieMandelaMemorialService Malema: But because she is a woman we are being reminded of her wrongs. And if it was a man who had killed Stompie, he would have been celebrated and given titles.
— #RIPWinnieMandela (@EFFSouthAfrica) April 11, 2018

11 Apr 2018

#EFFWinnieMandelaMemorialService Malema: We must not even condemn the tyre and the match box because OR Tambo killed with a rifle. Under OR Tambo there was a firing squad. Why is no-one reminding us what OR Tambo and Chris Hani did in the camps?
— #RIPWinnieMandela (@EFFSouthAfrica) April 11, 2018

11 Apr 2018

We see women as soldiers equal to all soldiers. All reasonable people don’t have a problem with listening to women.

11 Apr 2018

Never hate women, they are human beings and are capable of doing what men can do. Winnie Mandela is an example that women can carry an AK47.

11 Apr 2018

#EFFWinnieMandelaMemorialService Malema: I want to say to the leadership of the EFF must never be the same as the leadership of the patriarchal ANC.
— #RIPWinnieMandela (@EFFSouthAfrica) April 11, 2018

11 Apr 2018

#EFFWinnieMandelaMemorialService Malema: Instead of being told of all the good that she has done, they highlight the negativity.
— #RIPWinnieMandela (@EFFSouthAfrica) April 11, 2018

11 Apr 2018

#EFFWinnieMandelaMemorialService Malema: No amount of hanging, imprisonment or brutal treatment would have killed the spirit of the students.
— #RIPWinnieMandela (@EFFSouthAfrica) April 11, 2018

11 Apr 2018

#EFFWinnieMandelaMemorialService Malema: When they killed Mahlangu and they shot at the students they wanted to kill the spirit of the students.
— #RIPWinnieMandela (@EFFSouthAfrica) April 11, 2018

11 Apr 2018

#EFFWinnieMandelaMemorialService Malema: They took our land and they said to us in the absence of a paper; we are not human beings and we do not have a right to own land and therefore they shall colonise us.
— #RIPWinnieMandela (@EFFSouthAfrica) April 11, 2018

11 Apr 2018

#EFFWinnieMandelaMemorialService Malema: They took our land and they said to us in the absence of a paper; we are not human beings and we do not have a right to own land and therefore they shall colonise us.
— #RIPWinnieMandela (@EFFSouthAfrica) April 11, 2018

11 Apr 2018

#EFFWinnieMandelaMemorialService Malema: This April we have lost our mother. It is in this very April that 366 years ago marked the colonisation of our people. It is in this very April that Chris Hani was killed.
— #RIPWinnieMandela (@EFFSouthAfrica) April 11, 2018

11 Apr 2018

#EFFWinnieMandelaMemorialService Malema: We have seen the DA pass what they call the De Lille Clause, similar to the Sobukwe Clause passed by the apartheid government. History has a funny way of repeating itself.
— #RIPWinnieMandela (@EFFSouthAfrica) April 11, 2018

11 Apr 2018

#EFFWinnieMandelaMemorialService Malema: We must remember that Brandfort is not a suburb, it is a place that the apartheid government used to imprison black people.
— #RIPWinnieMandela (@EFFSouthAfrica) April 11, 2018

11 Apr 2018

#EFFWinnieMandelaMemorialService Malema: Winnie Mandela was able to provide a clinic for the people even though she was under oppression and yet the ANC government even without anything to fear have failed to provide the people of Brandfort with better healthcare.
— #RIPWinnieMandela (@EFFSouthAfrica) April 11, 2018

11 Apr 2018

#EFFWinnieMandelaMemorialService Malema: All we ask is that government bring employment opportunities to the people of Brandfort. We ask that they receive shares in the mines that surround them. We ask that they be provided with a clinic.
— #RIPWinnieMandela (@EFFSouthAfrica) April 11, 2018

11 Apr 2018

Malema says that even though “they” (the government) neglected you, provides no housing or water for residents of Brandford, “you housed a stalwart”.

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