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 18
... township . With her husband next to her , she will rescue the township from oblivion . This project enables her to send him photographs of the children growing up ; to visit her in - laws regularly in the remote town of Heil- bron in ...
... township . With her husband next to her , she will rescue the township from oblivion . This project enables her to send him photographs of the children growing up ; to visit her in - laws regularly in the remote town of Heil- bron in ...
Page 19
... township . That was how , although distressingly absent , he had been a constant presence . She had lived only for his honour , proclaiming to herself and her customers the unknown day of his return . He would return to heal and give ...
... township . That was how , although distressingly absent , he had been a constant presence . She had lived only for his honour , proclaiming to herself and her customers the unknown day of his return . He would return to heal and give ...
Page 95
... township types in this room have simply launched into their projects . They have forgotten the mandatory rituals of civility . Of welcome . It's the brazen way of the township . Let's forgive them : you , the girl of Bizana , and I ...
... township types in this room have simply launched into their projects . They have forgotten the mandatory rituals of civility . Of welcome . It's the brazen way of the township . Let's forgive them : you , the girl of Bizana , and I ...
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