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491 days : prisoner number 1323/69

Title: 491 days : prisoner number 1323/69 / Winnie Madikizela-Mandela ; foreword by Ahmed Kathrada.
Author: Mandela, Winnie
Publication: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2013]

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Additional Authors

Kathrada, A. M. (Ahmad M.)

Description

xi, 251 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

On a freezing winters night, a few hours before dawn on May 12 1969 South African security police stormed the Soweto home of Winnie Madikizela Mandela activist and wife of the imprisoned Nelson Mandela and arrested her in the presence of her two young daughters then aged nine and ten. Rounded up in a group of other antiapartheid activists under Section 6 of the Terrorism Act designed for the security police to hold and interrogate people for as long as they wanted she was taken away. She had no idea where they were taking her or what would happen to her children. For her this was the start of 491 days of detention and two trials. Forty one years after her release on September 14 1970 Greta Soggot the widow of one of the defense attorneys from the 1969 1970 trials handed her a stack of papers that included a journal and notes she had written while in detention, most of the time in solitary confinement. Their reappearance brought back to her vivid and horrifying memories and uncovered for the rest of us a unique and personal slice of South Africa s history. This book shares with the world her moving and compelling journal along with some of the letters written between several affected parties at the time including she and Nelson Mandela himself then a prisoner on Robben Island for nearly seven years. Readers gain insight into the brutality she experienced and her depths of despair, as well as her resilience and defiance under extreme pressure. This young wife and mother emerged after 491 days in detention unbowed and determined to continue the struggle for freedom. -- From publisher's website.

Series Statement

Modern African writing

Uniform Title

Modern African writing.

Alternative Title

Four hundred ninety-one days

Subjects

Contents

Journal -- Arrest -- Detention -- Acquittal and re-detention -- State of mind -- The decision -- Health -- Interrogation -- Interrogation and other issues -- Attitude of the interrogators -- May diary -- June diary -- July diary -- My husband -- New trial -- Letters -- Twenty years in the life of Winnie Mandela -- Sixteen months in the life of Winnie Mandela, 12 May 1969 to 14 September 1970.

Call Number

Sc E 14-1152

ISBN

9780821421024 (hc : alk. paper)
0821421026 (hc : alk. paper)
9780821421017 (pb : alk. paper)
0821421018 (pb : alk. paper)
9780821444924 (pdf) (canceled/invalid)
0821444921 (pdf) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2013049174

OCLC

861676507

Author

Mandela, Winnie, author.

Title

491 days : prisoner number 1323/69 / Winnie Madikizela-Mandela ; foreword by Ahmed Kathrada.

Publisher

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2013]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Modern African writing

Modern African writing.

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Kathrada, A. M. (Ahmad M.), writer of added commentary.

Research Call Number

Sc E 14-1152

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