ZONDO LL

I HAVE NOTED ONE THING REGARDING THE STANDOFF BETWEEN THE CHILDREN OF THE PREVIOUS TWO MARRIAGES, THE ONE FROM WINNIE IS UNDERMINING THE OTHERS, THE REASON I SAY THIS IS BECAUSE EVERYONE KNOWS THAT, THE OLD MAN WAS CELEBRATING HIS BIRTHDAY.
THAT MEANS THE ONLY THING THEY SHOULD HAVE DONE WAS JUST TO CHECK WITH THEIR FATHER THROUGH TELEPHONE.THEY ARE COMPLAINING ABOUT INADEQUATE CONSULTATION, FOR WHAT?
THEIR FATHER IS VERY OLD NOW AND HE CAN AFFORD GO AND ATTEND THEIR GRATUATIONS, THEY MUST THINK FOR THE OLD MAN.
THEIR BOYCOTTING OF THE OLD MAN’S BIRTHDAY IS A CLEAR INDICATION OF BEING SPOILED AND MALICIOUS.
I WONT BE SUPRISED IF WINNIE IS INDIRECTLY INVOLVED. IT IS VERY SAD THAT THEY ARE MAKING EXCUSES OUT OF NEETY GREETIES, AND IT IS SAD THAT TATA DID NOT GET A CHANCE RAISE HIS CHILDREN DUE TO THE FACT THAT, HE HAD TO SECRIFIES FOR THE LIBERATION THE WHOLE NATION.

IT SEEMS AS IF THEIR MORALS ARE COMPLETELY DAMAGED, HENCE THEY CHOSES TO EMMOTIONAL TORCHERS THEIR DAD.
THEY THINK THAT WE DONT SEE THAT, THEY ARE UNDERMINING THE CHILDRENS OF THE PREVIOUS MARRIAGE. THEY DONT LOOK AT A BIGGER PICTURE, WHICH IS A DEMONSTRATION OF UNITED FRONT FOR THE SAKE OF MADIBA VALUES AND DIGNITY.

THEY ARE SPOILED AND EVERYBODY KNOWS, WHO IS RESPONSIBLE.

Basil Mabasa

I have to say it is very worrying that a high that has high public standing and good reputaion is very divided in this manner. It is an embarrassment for the families to be involved in feuds that threatens the Mandela Legacy with a fate not less than complete destruction.

The problem here is the mandela daughters from Winnie who think that they have every right to Mandela’s legacy. Yes, the media did give them the greatest coverage over the first wife’s children but that doesn’t make them have better or rightful claim of the old man’s legacy.

For people to start to fight over someone’s funeral arrangements while he is still alive is the greatest disrespect and traversty I have ever come across. Yes he will die but are they sure that all of them will die after him? Why is he not talking about their funeral arrangements? Age is not and will never be a passport to death.

If, like they are claiming in the letter, they want to preserve the legacy and by all means try to proetct his legacy, they should let his will be done by allowing him to peacefully give half of his Wealth to his Organisation, The very same organisation that gives millions of poor children and those living with HIV hope that things will get better one day. Because to me, that is the greatest contribution after democracy that mandela has given to south africans.

SO to them, all of them, stop embarrassing South AFrica and make us look like we are a bunch of greedy country that put money over everything, even Mandela’s legacy. Shame on you.

I am in The UK and people are very angry about the whole situation. Every one from all differenet countries that have seen the story are pissed off.

WISE MAN

WINNIE AND HIS DAUGHTER ARE AN EMBERASSMENT TO THE MANDELA FAMILY AND TO THE NATION.
THEY THINK THAT, THE ARE THE ONLY ONES, WHO OWNS MADIBA’S LEGECY.
HOW CAN THE OLD MAN BE EXPECTED TO ATTEND GRADUATION FOR SOME ONE WHO HAS FLACTUATING MORALS

GUGU

TATU NELSON MANDELA WILL OUTLIVE YOU .ZENIJONGE

Musa

Sopitsho is human like,& a newsmaker we the public want 2 know everything happening to/around him.Reportin shenanigans frm Winnie’s womb was sporton! After reporting is yo proffession Don’t apologise.

Judy Salamu

I’m a non-South African residing in SA and a great admirer of Nelson Mandela. He is a kind of a man that every nation would wish to have. He is one man whose leadership set South Africa apart from other African countries. It is his kind of leadership that kept South Africa on the continent map.

That the world should read such stories from the family of such a man is unbelievable. Rather than wait to be ‘consulted’ surely, these ‘children’ should have made themselves available to the old man. After all, a birthday is a very certain day that cannot be changed. At 90, they were very sure of what to expect on his birthady, I mean in terms of the world wanting to spoil this icon that has set precedents that are hard to meet. Was it impossible to suggest to the old man that perharps he should consider spending one of the days with the family only rather than behave as if Mandela is unreachable to them?

I personally feel that Winnie should ihave nculcated a sense of basic value system in her children who should let the old man enjoy his old age with the woman of his choice. Winnie and her children have degraded the moral public by making the old man peaceless about such newspaper coverage. I feel very sorry that this strong icon is not gaining the family understanding thet he needs at this age.

Dewis Lewis

Uhhhh, …in my humble view, …shouldn’t a true statesman ensure that materialistic things like personal wealth, fortune or an extravagant lifestyle, under no circumstances become a part of, or tarnish his supposed legacy, …especially not while, every night within the borders of his own land, millions of people go to sleep, with empty stomachs?

…family feuds, …a direct result and also the punishment?
Just wondering, …you know?

And all this while the hero is still alive! How sick…

Greed (money) is the ‘root of all evil’, …even worse in the hands of people who did nothing to deserve it, …like non-deserving heirs!

Ducci

Why? I still don’t get what purpose the article was serving. Really! My arguement is does it aid the public in any way? Is it really in the public interest? Public interest is defined as “the interests of the community as a whole, or a group within the community or individuals” and that article didn’t serve that need at all! I’m a journalism student and I still don’t get it why you guys run with the type of stories that you guys run and I beleive that the Mandela story was just not really news worthy. It ius rather sad that the kids are fighting, but don’t you think that running the story tarnishes the image of a great man? Some people see him as a person who advocates peace in the world and now that he can’t keep the peace within his own family, doesn’t it change his whole image? Sometimes you have to think of the individual and how the article is going to tarnish his image and his family too. I was really disappointed with the article and just a week after we were celebrating his 90th birthday, his name becomes the subject of tabloid fodder.

Zinzi and Zenani are being outrageous though…

nandipha

Spot on Ducci! Our media needs to catch a wake up and stop speaking on behalf of the rest of the nation. When I express myself on here, I do it with my own agendas in mind and I never purport to speak out for the interest of the SA people. So when ST decided to run this sad family affair as it’s lead story, they have their own agendas and must not think readers are gullible enough to buy “in the public interest” sanctimonious garbage that the editor spews. he says that it’s in the public interest to know of this feud as it threatens the Mandela legacy(im loosely quoting him) but I ask myself, how as we all know that the Nelson Mandela Foundation was created for exactly that; to carry on the work and teachings of this man and no one small ill-equipped group of family members has been given this mandate and shouldn’t because the work is too vast.so to say the family feud threatens the preservation of this great man’s work is hog wash and you know it. This is just sensationalist, scraping bottom of the barrel.gutter journalism that is prying into a very sad private matter. What makes me even more sad is that this sort of quasi-journalism undermines and disrespects the very man that the ST claims to want to preserve the legacy of…ironic and pathetic. Sis ST!

Kani

This was yet another demonstration by the Sunday Times that you have ZERO respect for people’s privacy. This story was not in the public interest and I am very disappointed in your shallow explanation of the necessity to publish it. Shame on you Mondli!