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491 Days

Prisoner Number 1323/69

By: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

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491 Days

Prisoner Number 1323/69

By: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

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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Ohio University Press

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0821444921

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491 Days

Prisoner Number 1323/69

By: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

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Prisoner Number 1323/69

By: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

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Un coeur indompté Carnets de prison et correspondances

By: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

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Un coeur indompté Carnets de prison et correspondances

By: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

Le 12 mai 1969, par une nuit glacée, la police spéciale sud-africaine fait irruption dans la demeure de Winnie Mandela à Soweto et l'arrête, sous les yeux de ses deux filles, alors âgées de neuf et dix ans. Interpellée parmi d'autres militants anti-apartheid, l'épouse de Nelson Mandela va passer en prison 491 jours, durant lesquels elle tiendra un journal quotidien. Confisqué à sa libération, puis retrouvé 40 ans plus tard, ce journal décrit les conditions abominables de sa détention qui l'ont amenée au bord du suicide. Seule lueur d'espoir, les lettres de Nelson Mandela qu'elle a reçues clandestinement. Ce journal et cette correspondance inédite permettent de mieux cerner l'intelligence et la grandeur d'âme de ces deux figures fortes de l'histoire du xxe siècle, mais aussi de mettre au jour le courageux combat de Winnie, souvent occulté par la célébrité de son grand homme.

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Michel Lafon

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2749922429

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9782749922423

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