A judge on Friday convicted Winnie Mandela's former bodyguard of killing a black teenage activist and said Mrs. Mandela was at home when the kidnapped boy was brought there and beaten.
Supreme Court Justice Brian O'Donovan convicted Jerry Richardson of murdering 14-year-old James Stompie Seipei Moeketski on Jan. 1, 1989.He also was convicted of kidnapping, attempted murder and assault in cases involving three other men who were abducted and beaten at Mrs. Mandela's home in Soweto township, according to testimony.
Mrs. Mandela, the wife of black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela and a prominent anti-apartheid activist herself, was not charged in the case, even though witnesses testified that she participated in the beatings. Mrs. Mandela has said she was not at her house when any assaults took place.