ormally divorced in March 1996. Winnie Mandela had been dogged by allegations that she was involved in the murder of one of four youths who had been kidnapped and assaulted in 1988. She increasingly been seen by a sizable faction in the ANC as a stain on Nelson Mandela's prestige. Mandela consistently urged that the new South Africa be a forum for reconciliation in which consensus could ultimately be achieved. Despite his long struggle to achieve liberation from a white community that rejected black participation, he sought to include whites in the new government. His efforts at reconciliation culminated in May 1995 with the approval of a new South African constiution that barred discrimination against the country's minorities, including whites. ...
