Canada denies Winnie Mandela visa…
No mention made if her ‘soccer’ team was traveling with her…or if she was brining her collection of …‘necklaces’ along…
I see she got into the US- I guess Canada has higher standards 
MikeN -
Do you have a source for that?
I can’t seem to find anything to confirm your comment.
[quote=“TainanCowboy”]MikeN -
Do you have a source for that?
I can’t seem to find anything to confirm your comment.[/quote]
cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/ … index.html
[quote]“No reason was given,” said Carole Adrianns, event director for MusicaNoir, an organization that raises awareness about Africa through cultural projects. “The Mandela family was very, very confident that they were getting the visa,” she said.
Immigration officials in Ottawa were not immediately available to comment.
Adrianns said she was especially “blown away” by the visa denial because Madikizela-Mandela had just been to New York on May 19 to receive an award for her work on AIDS.
“It would just have been such an honor to have her there for us,” she said.
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xtrain -
Yes, I saw those articles. That was a couple of weeks ago.
Not relevant to this recent decision by the Canadian gov’t. MikeN made it appear to be something related to this incident.
so you were asking for a source for an opinion, and one offered in jest?
does she have a criminal record?
From Wikipedia, for what it’s worth:
“On April 24, 2003, she was found guilty on 43 counts of fraud and 25 of theft, and her broker, Addy Moolman, was convicted on 58 counts of fraud and 25 of theft. Both had pleaded not guilty to the charges, which related to money taken from loan applicants’ accounts for a funeral fund, but from which the applicants did not benefit. Madikizela-Mandela was sentenced to five years in prison.”
no wonder she couldn’t get a visa…she’s in prison till next year!!ha 
I do have vague memories about her going bonkers sometime in the early 90s.
Winnie Mandela is a murderess, many times over. Look it up.
Implicated in the murder of 14-year old Stompie Seipei among others.
[quote=“TainanCowboy”]xtrain -
Yes, I saw those articles. That was a couple of weeks ago.
Not relevant to this recent decision by the Canadian gov’t. MikeN made it appear to be something related to this incident.[/quote]
??? Sorry, you lost me there- she was allowed into the States; she wasn’t allowed into Canada- different standards. I don’t see where I anywhere suggested that the two decisions were connected.
As for where I found this nugget:
in your original BBC link.
MikeN -
Read the title of the thread again.
Its about Winnie and her refused entrance into Canada. Not the USA.
Hell, the USA lets crminals and murderers in all of the time…Chavez, Abamazamazama from Iran, Castro…all they have to do is be a lefty wacko and the red carpet is rolled out and the looney libs open their wallets to throw money at them.