491 Days: Prisoner Number 1323/69

by Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821421018
• ISBN13: 9780821421017
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"