OWN CORRESPONDENT and AFP, Johannesburg | Monday 7.00pm.
WINNIE Madikizela-Mandela, former wife of President Nelson Mandela, was on Monday nominated as a parliamentary candidate for the African National Congress. This emerged on Monday when the ANC released a list of Gauteng nominees for the 1999 general election.
Madikizela-Mandela — who last week hit the headlines when the Truth and Reconciliation Commission implicated her in human rights abuses committed by members of the football team she formed in the late 1980s — is among 60 candidates on the politically powerful Gauteng province’s preliminary list of election candidates for parliament.
The controversial president of the African National Congress’s Women’s League has thus survived the second round of nominations in Gauteng’s race for parliamentary election tickets.
She made it onto the province’s first nominations list in August, at the time receiving fewer votes only than ANC president Thabo Mbeki. Nominations for the Gauteng legislature — one of the three sections of nominees — include Jessie Duarte, Ronnie Mamoepa, Mary Metcalfe and premier Mathole Motshekga.
Nominees for the National Assembly is about 250 names long, and includes: Cyril Ramaphosa, Frank Chikane, Jeremy Cronin, Ronnie Kasrils, Terror Lekota, Peter Mokaba, Jay Naidoo, Alfred Nzo, Mathews Phosa, Wally Serote, Stella Sigcau, Albertina Sisulu, Steve Tshwete, Tony Yengeni, and Jacob and Nkosazana Zuma. — AFP