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Frankly, I don’t see how anyone with any common sense can still think I was wrong to denounce Winnie years ago. It seems Nelson Mandela is proving too great a self-aggrandizing prop for some to let him go. Which brings me to his ex-wife, Winnie Madikizela–Mandela. Because nobody has done more to bask in the god-like… Read more.
My respect for the spousal role Winnie Mandela played in South Africa’s “long walk to freedom” has always been undermined by my contempt for the political role she played, which too often had her behaving more like the matriarch of a crime family than the long-suffering mother of an oppressed people. But even I was… Read more.
I have no doubt that when the time finally comes, South Africans will put on a state funeral for Nelson Mandela that will make those Catholics put on for dead popes seem modest and irreverent. And the least of it will be the who’s who among world leaders queuing up to pay their last respects.… Read more.
In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes. (Andy Warhol, 1968) There is no denying that the Kardashians have made a mockery of Warhol’s well-known aphorism by extending their 15 minutes of vacuous fame for many years, and counting. But from the time Anna Nicole Smith did so over a decade ago, I have… Read more.
