Posted on 12/14/2005 8:01:58 AM PST by yankeedame
'Tookie' offered South Africa burial
From: Agence France-Presse From correspondents in Johannesburg
December 15, 2005
WINNIE Madikizela-Mandela has offered to help fulfil the final wish of executed former Los Angeles gang leader Stanley "Tookie" Williams and hold his burial in South Africa.
A spokesman for the flamboyant former wife of Nelson Mandela told the Afrikaans daily newspaper Beeld that Madikizela-Mandela will "honour her promise to see that Williams is buried in South Africa." Williams, who was found guilty of four killings but became an anti-violence crusader on death row and an author of several books, was executed in California yesterday by lethal injection.
Quoting Williams's former wife Bonny Williams-Taylor, the newspaper said it was the former gang leader's wish to be buried in South Africa.
He met Ms Madikizela-Mandela in 1996 and was "very impressed" with her, Ms Williams-Taylor said.
"She had huge influence on his life and it was his wish to be buried there (in South Africa)."
Maybe the MSM meant to say flameboyant in describing the necklace queen.
I saw a report on FOX that said he was doing time for...."Drum roll"......Murder two at a location that I don't remember. Nice legacy.
I've always been a bit puzzled about why African-Americans identify with South Africa. Most African-Americans would be descendants of people from the Western coast of Africa, not the South. Africa is a huge continent - isn't this something like an American of Italian descent identifying himself with Norway? No offense meant to anyone, just wondering...
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