what's black and slides up and down Nelson's Column ?

[Jillius]

What's black and slides up and down Nelson's Column ?



Winnie Mandela !

[jno]

not since about 1960, in fact. So that would be quite an old joke?

[Jillius]

she hasn't been dead that long jno !! lol

[kate1976]

Winnie isn't dead, just divorced since 1996!

[Jillius]

Crikey, sorry Winnie but I thought you'd died !
(not that she's likely to be reading this lol )

[jno]

Jilius, their last child was born in 1960. After that, as I understand it, Mandela was in jail for a while?

[Pippa68]

They were still married for a while after Nelson was released ~ so unless he or she had gone off sex I imagine the joke would have applied then.

But yes, I remember the joke being around when Nelson was released.

[4GS]

I heard that the morning after he was released he was banging on the prison gates saying "let me in, the bl00dy woman's a sex pest"

[jno]

they remained married, but not close; she'd spent the preceding years in the company of her football club, as I recall. I saw her once as I drove past her place in Soweto - quite a mansion. I'd sooner have seen him but they'd long since split.