The Cry of Winnie Mandela: A NovelA group of African women at a specific period in Southern Africa's history find their family life under pressure from capitalist modernity and apartheid. This is a deeply humane, sympathetic and generous book on the one hand but is unflinching in its honesty. Ndebele represents a rare breed of writer able to combine political awareness with a sensitivity towards context, language and characterization. The result is a gift offering to the present. This is one of the best books about women's sacrifices and contributions to the struggle against apartheid. |
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Page 111
... Bizo ! Hei wena , ntombi . Hello ! Bizo ! Winnie ! This is Winnie . Are you there ? In fact , where are you , ntombi , you mobile girl ? They say some people are upwardly mobile . You're mobile in every direction . Universal mobility is ...
... Bizo ! Hei wena , ntombi . Hello ! Bizo ! Winnie ! This is Winnie . Are you there ? In fact , where are you , ntombi , you mobile girl ? They say some people are upwardly mobile . You're mobile in every direction . Universal mobility is ...
Page 121
... Bizo , enough . You must drive on . Forty days and forty nights in the torture chamber ! A voice crying in the wilderness . But increasingly , the wilderness is not something out there in the world , or in you , Bizo . It is taking ...
... Bizo , enough . You must drive on . Forty days and forty nights in the torture chamber ! A voice crying in the wilderness . But increasingly , the wilderness is not something out there in the world , or in you , Bizo . It is taking ...
Page 127
... Bizo , to say goodbye to you . I must take over your loneliness as you wait in your car just outside the prison gates , contemplating the day Nelson was released . You arrive early on a bright morning . No one who passes thinks it could ...
... Bizo , to say goodbye to you . I must take over your loneliness as you wait in your car just outside the prison gates , contemplating the day Nelson was released . You arrive early on a bright morning . No one who passes thinks it could ...
Contents
Part | 1 |
The Second Descendant | 17 |
The Fourth Descendant | 36 |
Copyright | |
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absence aka Patience Aunt Deli Basotho beautiful became become bedroom began begin Bizana Bizo body Brandfort Caravelle child Coloured Commission finds death Delisiwe departure descendants desire door dream drive Duduza Ethekwini eyes face feeling freedom fucking Gauteng girl give happened highway husband imagination intimacy Johannesburg journey Laingsburg laugh Leleidi Lesotho Letlala letter live loneliness look maize Major Theunis Swanepoel Mamello Mannete Marara marriage mellowness memory mind Mofolo Nelson Nelson Mandela never night Nomzamo ntombi Odysseus pain Patience Molete Penelope Penelope's Peter Magubane play political prison Quesalid question rage rape remember responsibility rituals Robben Island sangoma sense silence social South African Soweto squatter camp stop story tell things thought torture township turned Urbania Victor Verster Prison walked watched wife Winnie Mandela woman wonder Zintombi