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 67
... face with fists , tearing the face of a sibling with a vicious weapon of your own invention , riding on the bare backs of horses and cattle . Tough and carefree . We are told you softened when your mother died . That's when you drew ...
... face with fists , tearing the face of a sibling with a vicious weapon of your own invention , riding on the bare backs of horses and cattle . Tough and carefree . We are told you softened when your mother died . That's when you drew ...
Page 95
A Novel Njabulo Simakahle Ndebele. Kenna le wena kajeno ! You and I , face - to - face in a cell of our making . I welcome you to this gathering of the women of the lebandla . You've seen how the township types in this room have simply ...
A Novel Njabulo Simakahle Ndebele. Kenna le wena kajeno ! You and I , face - to - face in a cell of our making . I welcome you to this gathering of the women of the lebandla . You've seen how the township types in this room have simply ...
Page 127
... face the most difficult period of my waiting : the beginning of the end of waiting . It came with the imminent release of Nelson . I'm turning to you now , Winnie , my Bizo , to say goodbye to you . I must take over your loneliness as ...
... face the most difficult period of my waiting : the beginning of the end of waiting . It came with the imminent release of Nelson . I'm turning to you now , Winnie , my Bizo , to say goodbye to you . I must take over your loneliness as ...
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