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491 Days - Prisoner Number 1323/69 (Paperback)
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491 Days - Prisoner Number 1323/69 (Paperback)
Series: Modern African Writing
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On a freezing winter's 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
Winnie Mandela, this was the start of 491 days of detention and two
trials. Forty-one years after Winnie Mandela's release on September
14, 1970, Greta Soggot, the widow of one of the defense attorneys
from the 1969?-70 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 Winnie vivid and horrifying memories and uncovered
for the rest of us a unique and personal slice of South Africa's
history. 491 Days: Prisoner number 1323/69 shares with the world
Winnie Mandela's moving and compelling journal along with some of
the letters written between several affected parties at the time,
including Winnie and Nelson Mandela, himself then a prisoner on
Robben Island for nearly seven years. Readers will 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.
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