When Winnie Mandela defied the government's orders and returned to Soweto from banishment in the Orange Free State three years ago, she was hailed by millions of her fellow South Africans as the Mother of the Nation. Idolized by the township's teenagers, she was carried on their shoulders into political funerals and was constantly surrounded on the streets by dancing youngsters chanting "Man-del-a, Man-del-a." To much of the outside world she became the grande dame of the South African revolution, a worthy surrogate for her husband Nelson, the imprisoned black nationalist leader. But Winnie, 52, was a strong, willful person who...
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