Winnie denies newspaper interview

ANC stalwart Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has denied giving an interview to Nadira Naipaul that was published in the London Evening Standard.

"I did not give Ms Naipaul an interview. It is therefore not necessary for me to respond in any detail to the contents of a fabricated interview," she said in a statement on Friday.
Madikizela-Mandela was said to have criticised South Africa's first democratically elected president in an interview published in the London Evening Standard.

She reportedly said Mandela had become a "corporate foundation" who was being "wheeled out to collect the money". Madikizela-Mandela also called Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu a "cretin", in the interview with Nadira Naipaul, who visited her with her husband, the writer VS Naipaul, in Soweto.

"Mandela let us down," said Madikizela-Mandela. "He agreed to a bad deal for the blacks. Economically, we are still on the outside," said Madikizela-Mandela.

She also said "this name is an albatross around the necks of my family" and that she could not forgive him for accepting the Nobel Peace Prize with apartheid's last president FW de Klerk.