New PDF release: 491 Days: Prisoner Number 1323/69 (Modern African Writing

By Winnie Madikizela-Mandela,Ahmed Kathrada

ISBN-10: 0821421018

ISBN-13: 9780821421017

ISBN-10: 0821421026

ISBN-13: 9780821421024

On a freezing winter’s evening, a couple of hours earlier than sunrise on might 12, 1969, South African defense police stormed the Soweto domestic of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, activist and spouse of the imprisoned Nelson Mandela, and arrested her within the presence of her younger daughters, then elderly 9 and ten.

Rounded up in a bunch of different antiapartheid activists less than part 6 of the Terrorism Act, designed for the safety police to carry and interrogate humans for so long as they sought after, she used to be taken away. She had no notion the place they have been taking her or what might take place to her young ones. For Winnie Mandela, this was once the beginning of 491 days of detention and trials.

Forty-one years after Winnie Mandela’s free up on September 14, 1970, Greta Soggot, the widow of 1 of the protection legal professionals from the 1969?–70 trials, passed her a stack of papers that incorporated a magazine and notes she had written whereas in detention, more often than not in solitary confinement. Their reappearance introduced again to Winnie vibrant and frightening thoughts and exposed for the remainder of us a special and private slice of South Africa’s history.

491 Days: Prisoner quantity 1323/69 stocks with the realm Winnie Mandela’s relocating and compelling magazine in addition to many of the letters written among numerous affected events on the time, together with Winnie and Nelson Mandela, himself then a prisoner on Robben Island for almost seven years. Readers will achieve perception into the brutality she skilled and her depths of depression, in addition to her resilience and defiance lower than severe strain. This younger spouse and mom emerged after 491 days in detention unbowed and made up our minds to proceed the fight for freedom.

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