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...Mandela football team and youth groups from Soweto schools have been fighting hit-and-run battles for more than two years, and residents of the neighborhood have accused team members of everything from rape to car theft. In late December the gang abducted four young men from a Methodist Church refuge, took them to Mandela's house and beat them repeatedly. One of the youngsters escaped; the team released two others after 2 1/2 weeks; and the body of the fourth, a 14-year-old named Stompie Mokhetsi, was located last week in a mortuary where it had lain unidentified...
...Mandela claims that the three youths were taken from the church refuge only to protect them from sexual abuse by the white minister, an accusation that the Methodist Church leadership dismisses as a smoke screen. She insists that the abuse would have been confirmed in court by her physician, Dr. Abu-Baker Asvat, but he was shot to death in his office late last month by two men posing as patients. According to Johannesburg's Sunday Star, however, Dr. Asvat examined the captives at the Mandela house and could have testified that they had been savagely beaten...
...Mandela also says her football team was disbanded years ago, though she continues to appear in public with young men wearing the team's track suits of green, yellow and black, the colors of the outlawed A.N.C. Last week's press conference statement read, "Not only is Mrs. Mandela associated with the team, but in fact the team is her own creation...
Just before dawn on Sunday, police raided the Mandela household. They dusted for fingerprints, carried away boxes of clothing, whips and clubs for forensic tests and detained 14 members for questioning...
...rift between Mandela and her Soweto supporters has a long history. They frowned when she built a luxurious new house, nicknamed "Winnie's Palace." The A.N.C. and U.D.F. disavowed her comments in favor of "necklacing" -- hanging gasoline-filled tires around the necks of blacks accused of "collaborating with the system," then igniting them. Soweto civic groups and A.N.C. officials asked repeatedly that the football team be broken up to halt its thuggery. In February 1987 students from a local high school who had been warring with the team stoned the Mandela house, and last July they fire- bombed...