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 104
... lives does she have left before she's finally lying flat on her stomach ? ' they speculate . Even I cannot tell . I'm ... live the drama of its becoming , while watching it becoming . All at once . It's the feeling of being time itself ...
... lives does she have left before she's finally lying flat on her stomach ? ' they speculate . Even I cannot tell . I'm ... live the drama of its becoming , while watching it becoming . All at once . It's the feeling of being time itself ...
Page 113
... live their own lives ; to drive their own cars according to laws made and confirmed by their own legislature . They have yet to abandon the tendency to regard their own neighbourhoods as spaces of lawlessness . They continue to hand ...
... live their own lives ; to drive their own cars according to laws made and confirmed by their own legislature . They have yet to abandon the tendency to regard their own neighbourhoods as spaces of lawlessness . They continue to hand ...
Page 136
... live with it . In time they find they are unable to live without it . ' Mees Winnie - she dead . ' And my heaven ? I give you my heaven as possibly the single element of consistency in my political life : my distrust of reconciliation ...
... live with it . In time they find they are unable to live without it . ' Mees Winnie - she dead . ' And my heaven ? I give you my heaven as possibly the single element of consistency in my political life : my distrust of reconciliation ...
Contents
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The Second Descendant | 17 |
The Fourth Descendant | 36 |
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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