No amount of house arrest, imprisonment, banishment and torture could bury mama Winnie Mandela's name and memory. Brandfort became an international name because it housed the international struggle icon, mama Nomzamo, the mother of the nation.
She faced a deliberate media campaign, led by apartheid Stratcom, which sought to destroy her image as the mother of the nation; a title that her people gave her in recognition of her selfless contribution to the liberation.
We know of no-one, not even men, who would stop apartheid police and military vans after arresting children in Soweto, and physically take them out from the hands and vans of gun-carrying white male soldiers.
She was scared of no-one and this character is also responsible for the hatred she invited from the racist apartheid regime but also from within the ranks of the liberation movement.