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 119
... torture chambers . Don't go in . Just wait inside your car , and visit the inside of the building with your imagination . You never really recovered from what happened in that building . It changed you forever . The process of change ...
... torture chambers . Don't go in . Just wait inside your car , and visit the inside of the building with your imagination . You never really recovered from what happened in that building . It changed you forever . The process of change ...
Page 120
... tortured too in the same way . I'm remembering how much I dreaded the times we met at our homes after our return , and exchanged stories of beatings and torture in detention . I still feel I did not have enough suffering to share . I'm ...
... tortured too in the same way . I'm remembering how much I dreaded the times we met at our homes after our return , and exchanged stories of beatings and torture in detention . I still feel I did not have enough suffering to share . I'm ...
Page 121
... torture , I carried inside of me like a pregnancy , the terrible weight of loneliness and the embers of rage . ' Oh , Nelson ! ' Bizo , enough . You must drive on . Forty days and forty nights in the torture chamber ! A voice crying in ...
... torture , I carried inside of me like a pregnancy , the terrible weight of loneliness and the embers of rage . ' Oh , Nelson ! ' Bizo , enough . You must drive on . Forty days and forty nights in the torture chamber ! A voice crying in ...
Contents
Part | 1 |
The Second Descendant | 17 |
The Fourth Descendant | 36 |
Copyright | |
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