Part of My Soul Went with Him

by Winnie Mandela, Anne Benjamin (Editor), Mary Benson (Adapted by)

Overview

Winnie Mandela, one of South Africa's most visible and articulate apartheid foes, spent many years as a "banned" person in her own country. She lived under virtual house arrest and was forbidden to address public gatherings or meet with more than one person at a time. She endured a forced separation of 27 years from her husband, Nelson Mandela. Here, in interviews and letters, she tells the story of her life and political development.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393302905
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	11/17/1985
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	176
Sales rank:	592,340
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

	Editorial Note	7
	Photographic Acknowledgements	8
	Introduction	9
	A Tribute to Nomzamo Winnie Mandela	19
	My Little Siberia: Banished to Brandfort	23
	When My Father Taught Me History I Began to Understand: Growing up in the Countryside (Pondoland)	46
	Life with Him was Always a Life without Him: Meeting Nelson Mandela	57
	I Always Waited for that Sacred Knock: Life Underground	71
	He was a Pillar of Strength to Me: Being Alone	81
	No Human Being Can Go On Taking those Humiliations without Reaction: In Prison	97
	We Couldn't Stop Our Children: The Soweto Uprising, 1976	112
	The Chapter of Dialogue is Finally Closed: The Political Situation	118
	Part of My Soul Went with Him: Visits to Robben Island and Pollsmoor	129
	Appendix	151
	Freedom Charter	151
	Winnie Mandela's Banning Order	157
	Conditions of Visit to Nelson Mandela on Robben Island	161
	Conditions with which Winnie Mandela Had to Comply to Travel from Brandfort to Robben Island and Back	163

Editorial Reviews

This important, topical book is about Winnie and Nelson Mandela, leaders in the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa. Both have been in and out of prison, and since 1964, Nelson Mandela, head of the banned African National Congress and the man who, many agree, would be Prime Minister were free elections held, has been serving a life sentence. In a series of interviews, interspersed with Mandela's censored letters, his wifebanished in the late '70s to a remote town in the Orange Free Statetells their story. Here are their marriage and early years together, their political work and her life since his final arrest and triala time of harassment, marked by banishment and most recently the destruction by arson of the family's home and the kidnapping of a grandchild. The woman who emerges in this lyrical, poignant, tragic commentary is proud and humorous, whose majestic sense of self enables her to walk into white-only stores, demandingand receivingservice. Perhaps most significant, Winnie Mandela illustrates on a personal level the hideousness of apartheid and shares her dream of a South Africa freed of racial enslavement. First serial to Ms. and Mother Jones. Foreign rights: Sanford Greenburger Assoc. November

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

This collection of interviews with Man dela and of excerpts from letters writ ten by her husband, Nelson, traces the life of a leader of the South African peo ple who has often been thought of only in relation to her husband. The inter views deal with much more than the current situation and create a brief autobiography of a remarkable woman. All periods, from childhood in Pondo land to her present life in Brandfort (her ``Little Siberia''), are discussed. For those who already know a great deal about the South African situation this book will illuminate the life of one ex traordinary leader, her determination and her hope in spite of imprisonment and banishment. For others the histori cal sections written by Benson will help to put the personal sections in context, and the book will be a good introduc tion to the nature of apartheid society. Recommended for public and college li braries. Maidel Cason, Northwestern Univ. Lib., Evanston, Ill.

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