Winnie Mandela accuses Nelson of 'betraying' the blacks of South Africa

Nelson Mandela's former wife Winnie has turned on her ex-husband and accused him of 'betraying' the blacks of South Africa in a scathing attack.
Mrs Mandela, 73, said that the former ANC Leader had done nothing for poor black people and should not have accepted the Nobel Peace Prize with the man who jailed him, FW De Klerk.
In further criticisms she said her ex-husband had become a 'corporate foundation' who is 'wheeled out' by the ANC globally to collect money.

'This name Mandela is an albatross around the necks of my family. You all must realise that Mandela was not the only man who suffered. There were many others, hundreds who languished in prison and died,' Mrs Mandela said.
'Mandela did go to prison and he went in there as a young revolutionary but look what came out,' she told the London Evening Standard.
'Mandela let us down. He agreed to a bad deal for the blacks. Economically we are still on the outside. The economy is very much 'white'.
'It has a few token blacks, but so many who gave their life in the struggle have died unrewarded.'
'I cannot forgive him for going to receive the Nobel [Peace Prize in 1993] with his jailer [FW] de Klerk. Hand in hand they went. Do you think de Klerk released him from the goodness of his heart.
'He had to. The times dictated it, the world had changed, and our struggle was not a flash in the pan, it was bloody to say the least and we had given rivers of blood. I had kept it alive with every means at my disposal.
Mrs Mandela was married for 38 years - although they were only together for five of these.

Nelson Mandela and wife Winnie walk hand-in hand-with after Mandela's release from prison
She also said Archbishop Desmond Tutu is a 'cretin' and the sacrifices of others, such as the murdered ANC leader Steve Biko, were being overlooked.
Mrs Mandela made her comments in an interview yesterday with Nadira Naipaul, the wife of novelist VS Naipaul.
The interview comes as the FIFA World Cup is set to be staged in South Africa this year, and with the release of the Hollywood film Invictus about the anti-apartheid struggle.
Mrs Mandela is notorious in South Africa after she was convicted for the kidnap of 14-year-old Stompie Moeketsi, and was sentenced to six years for kidnap, although this was reduced to a fine on appeal.
The teenager died in 1988, murdered by members of her controversial bodyguard, the Mandela United Football Club.
She also attracted infamy for endorsing 'necklacing' - putting burning tyres around the necks of collaborators with Apartheid.

The pair pictured together in 1990
She also criticised the Truth and Reconciliation Committee - which she appeared before in 1997 - and implicated her for 'gross violations of human rights.'
'Look at this Truth and Reconciliation charade.
'What good does the truth do? How does it help to anyone to know where and how their loved ones are killed or buried?
'That Bishop Tutu who turned it all into a religious circus came here. He had a cheek to tell me to appear.
'I told him that he and his other like-minded cretins were only sitting there because of our struggle and Me.
'Because of the things that I and people like me had done to get freedom.'
Mrs Mandela said her views were held by many in the black township of Soweto.
'The people of Soweto are still with me.
'Look what they make him do. The great Mandela. He has no control or say any more. They put that huge statue of him right in the middle of the most affluent 'white' area of Johannesburg. Not here where we spilled our blood and where it all started.
'Mandela is now like a corporate foundation. He is wheeled out globally to collect the money and he is content doing that.
'The ANC have effectively sidelined him but they keep him as a figurehead for the sake of appearance.'
She also said that her ex-husband was no longer 'accessible' to their two daughters, Zenani, 51 and Zindzi, 50, who have to go through red tape to speak to their father.