The London Evening Standard newspaper says it cannot understand Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's denial of an event and conversation that clearly took place.

The newspaper's managing editor, Doug Wills, was responding after Madikizela-Mandela denied ever giving an interview for a story published in the British newspaper. 

The interview was highly critical of her former husband, Nelson Mandela.  Wills says the writer of the story, Lady Nadira Naipaul, is a distinguished journalist who visited Madikizela- Mandela at home and spoke to her at length about her experiences. 

He says Nadira and her husband, Nobel Literature prizewinner Sir V S Naipaul, were photographed with Madikizela-Mandela, and this picture was printed with the article.