Sisonke Msimang

An elegant and challenging portrait of the extraordinary, glamorous, complex and brutal revolutionary, Winnie Mandela

The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela

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By and large, the authorities leave African women alone because they are supposed to be governed through their men. When laws referred to "natives," they usually meant African men; African Women are seldom singled out as political subjects, as they were legal minors under custo- mary law and thus not proper "persons" in their own rights.

African patriarchy provides a shield - albeit a flimsy one– for women, protecting them from the intense racist sCrutiny of the state. (Of course, the state tends not to pro- tect the women abused by those men.) 

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