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Mon 03 Mar 2010Mandela's ex-wife denies criticising him in interview
NELSON MANDELA’S ex-wife, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, has denied harshly criticising the former South African president in an interview published by a British newspaper, saying the journalist who wrote the article was “a liar and a fraud”.
Last week the LondonEvening Standardran an interview with Ms Mandela conducted by journalist Nadira Naipaul, in which the 73-year-old said her former husband had betrayed poor black South Africans.
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