Abstract
ABSTRACT The death of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was accompanied by startling revelations concerning the strategies employed by the apartheid state in the (un)making of her political image. This commentary considers how documentary representation of Madikizela-Mandela derailed her political ambitions in the context of the new post-apartheid hegemony, and confused the manner in which her responses to apartheid-era trauma were represented in collective memory. In the documentaries under discussion, Madikizela-Mandela is portrayed in contradictory poses: as a powerful, internationally renowned female leader and as a deranged tyrant. Arguably, such representations capture aspects of South Africa’s “difficult past” which the ANC-led government sought to manage. Given this context, this essay explores the ways in which representations of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela be viewed as a site for remembering and forgetting. And how are her individual acts of memorialising apartheid’s trauma to be received.
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