World IN BRIEF : SOUTH AFRICA : Mandela Defends His Wife’s Actions
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South African black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela defended his wife, Winnie, against allegations of possible involvement in the kidnaping and killing of a 14-year-old black activist. Speaking in Lagos, Nigeria, Mandela said his wife had been the victim of the “most scandalous persecution” by the Pretoria government. Three men have testified that they were abducted in December, 1988, with the teen-ager and taken to Winnie Mandela’s Soweto house. They said she beat them and permitted her bodyguards to assault them.
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