Special Report Transcript Episode 76, Section 2, Time 02:13

After several periods in detention she was banished to Brandfort in the Free State in 1977. In August 1985, after her Brandfort home was bombed, Winnie defied her banning order and returned to her real home in Soweto. In 1986 she formed the Mandela United Football Club. They quickly became very unpopular with the Soweto community. Two years later school children burnt down her Orlando West house in a revenge attack on her football club. Winnie then moved to Diepkloof where things really started falling apart. It seemed as if Winnie felt threatened by the popularity of local Methodist minister, Paul Verryn, whose manse had become a safe haven for many youngsters and activists. According to allegations, before this week’s hearing, she wanted to frame Verryn by claiming that he’d sexually molested some of the boys. She was later convicted of kidnapping four youngsters from the manse and it is widely believed she participated in a vicious assault on them. After this incident, child activist Stompie Seipei disappeared and was later found murdered.

Notes: Winnie Mandela in Brandfort; Winnie Mandela’s return to Soweto.; Paul Verryn; Soweto Methodist Mission House; Child activist, Stompie Seipei

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