Women In Solitary - Inside The Female Resistance To Apartheid by Shanthini Naidoo

ISBN: 9780624089803

 Tafelberg Publishers Ltd | 20 August 2020

Paperback | 264 pages

‘The freezing loneliness made one wish for death,’ journalist Joyce Sikakane-Rankin said of solitary confinement. With seven other women, including Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, she was held for more than a year.

This is the story of these heroic women, their refusal to testify in the ‘Trial of Twenty-Two’ in 1969, their brutal detention and how they picked up their lives afterwards.