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SOUTH AFRICA: POLICE RAID HOME OF WINNIE MANDELA

(1 Mar 1995) English/Nat Police raided the home of Winnie Mandela today as part of an investigation into alleged corruption and fraud in the low-cost housing industry. The raid is the latest in a series of scandals involving the estranged wife of the South African President. Winnie Mandela, who is out of the country on a visit to West Africa, seemed caught unawares by the raid. APTV was at her office in Cape Town when she telephoned from the Ivory Coast asking for details. South Africa's Deputy Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology was not at home. She was in Abidjan on a controversial West African trip which the government had not sanctioned. The sight of police officers swarming over her Soweto home will renew questions about her continued presence in the Cabinet. The fiery activist with massive grassroots support hit world headlines again recently when her husband reprimanded her for publicly criticising his government, saying it was not delivering change fast enough to poor blacks. The crisis came around the same time that 11 prominent members of her African National Congress Women's League resigned over what they called her undemocratic leadership. Women's League members alleged that she had kept a cheque for 142-thousand dollars donated by Pakistan's Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Winnie Mandela claimed she was asked to use the money at her own discretion. She gave it to the Coordinated Anti-Poverty Project (C-A-P-P) which was also raided on Wednesday. She was informed of the raids by telephone by her personal assistant Alan Reynolds. SOUNDBITE: "One of the matters of concern though, I think, is the fact that they have raided your house and I understand what happened is that people stormed the house and leapt over the walls, but that they have done so in your absence. And I don't think it is strictly procedural to raid a person's house even if you have a warrant in their absence." SUPER CAPTION: Alan Reynolds, Personal Assistant of Winnie Mandela Police said no warrant had been issued for her arrest. SOUNDBITE: "It must be stressed at this stage that the police are not conducting a witch-hunt against Mrs Mandela, normal procedures were followed and strictly adhered to including the obtaining of the prerequisite search warrants before today's operation was undertaken." SUPER CAPTION: Police Colonel Dave Harrington Police said Winnie Mandela allegedly received 21-thousand dollars and was to receive about nine-thousand dollars more each month in exchange for three contracts for the Professional Builders Company to build low-cost housing. The money was paid through the Coordinated Anti-Poverty Program she heads, he said. Her daughter and personal physician were allegedly to have been given controlling shares in the building company, Harrington said. Winnie Mandela instructed her lawyers to apply for an urgent interdict against the police to get them to leave her house in Soweto. Police later withdrew from the property. President Mandela who met with Mozambique's President Joaquim Chissano in Cape Town did not immediately comment on the raids. Winnie Mandela has recently been embroiled in so many disputes that her place in the Cabinet has been thrown in doubt. She is expected to hold a news conference later today in Ghana. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...