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South Africa: Winnie Mandela forced auction flops

An auction to pay off a debt of Nelson Mandela's ex-wife failed to take place because no one would open her home to the sheriff.Officials and reporters gathered Tuesday outside the gated home of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. No one responded to the doorbell although a black car sped out of the gates.Madikizela-Mandela is loved by many for her role in the anti-apartheid struggle and abhorred by others for her alleged part in the kidnapping deaths of several young men in the 1980s.A 2011 court ruling allowed the sale of art works and other belongings to pay R20,000 ($2,150) owed in private school fees for a family member.Mandela and Madikizela-Mandela married in 1958, were separated because of his 27-year imprisonment and divorced in 1997 while he was president....

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