South Africa: Winnie - Film Reveals Apartheid State's Strategic Attempts to Tarnish Her Public Image

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The 2017 documentary 'Winnie', to be broadcast on e.tv on Wednesday evening, tells a side of the Winnie Madikizela-Mandela story which is rarely heard. Former apartheid security operatives openly tell the camera how they worked to plant negative stories about Madikizela-Mandela in the national and international media - and the pressure that was exerted on Nelson Mandela and the ANC to cut ties with the "Mother of the Nation". By REBECCA DAVIS.

Former Security Branch operative Vic McPherson sits in a sunny garden patting his dog. He addresses the camera readily, recounting his experience of arresting "terrorists" - by which he means ANC members - with an occasional self-satisfied grin.

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