491 days : prisoner number 1323/69 / / Winnie Madikizela-Mandela ; foreword by Ahmed Kathrada

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910825132503321
• Autore: Mandela Winnie
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Athens, Ohio : , : Ohio University Press, , 2013; ©2013
• ISBN: 0-8214-4492-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (267 p.)
• Collana: Modern African writing
• Altri autori (Persone): KathradaA. M (Ahmad M.)
• Disciplina: 968.062
• Soggetti: Anti-apartheid movements - South Africa; Government, Resistance to - South Africa; Women political activists - South Africa; Politicians' spouses - South Africa; South Africa Biography
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Part One: Journal; 1. Arrest; 2. Detention; 3. Acquittal and Re-detention; 4. State of Mind; 5. The Decision; 6. Health; 7. Interrogation; 8. Interrogation and Other Issues; 9. Attitude of the Interrogators; 10. May Diary; 11. June Diary; 12. July Diary; 13. My Husband; 14. New Trial; Part Two: Letters; Background; Letters; Epilogue: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela; Twenty Years in the Life of Winnie Mandela; Sixteen Months in the Life of Winnie Mandela; Acknowledgements
• Sommario/riassunto: On a freezing winter's night, a few hours before dawn on May 12, 1969, South African security police stormed the Soweto home of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, activist and wife of the imprisoned Nelson Mandela, and arrested her in the presence of her two young daughters, then aged nine and ten. Rounded up in a group of other antiapartheid activists under Section 6 of the Terrorism Act, designed for the security police to hold and interrogate people for as long as they wanted, she was taken away. She had no idea where they were taking her or what would happen to her children. For Winnie Mandela,