Word: brandfort
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Pretoria, however, seemed to be more preoccupied with Mandela's wife Winnie, 51, who is known as "the mother of the nation" by black activists. In 1977 the government banished her to Brandfort, a remote settlement in the Orange Free State. Since then she has not been permitted to live in her home in Soweto, outside Johannesburg. Even so, she returned there in August after unidentified arsonists fire bombed her Brandfort residence. Not surprisingly, Mandela blamed the government for that bombing. When police officers arrived last week with new orders that ended the forced exile in Brandfort but still prohibited...
Earlier, some 225 miles to the southwest of Johannesburg, police in the Orange Free State town of Brandfort raided the house of Winnie Mandela, the wife of Nelson Mandela. They arrested 30 people after firing tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowd. Mrs. Mandela, who has been banished to the remote location for the past eight years, was away at the time of the raid. She had obtained government permission to go to Johannesburg to see her doctor. In explaining their action, police said they had been stoned by protesters and then chased rioters who took refuge...