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Description

1. 304 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm

Summary

1. "This is the life story of a South African political detainee who underwent 104 days of solitary confinement under Section 29 of the draconian apartheid-era Terrorism Act before being brought to trial with 13 other political activists in what became known as the "Yengeni Trial". Gertrude Fester begins her story with her childhood and young adult life in Cape Town until she becomes politically active in the city's progressive women's organisation before focusing before focusing on her aboveground and underground work for the liberation struggle that led to her detention in the second half of the 1980s. It is in her depictions of her recollections of the daily experiences of solitary confinement and use of poetry written during this period that Gertrude takes the reader through the physically and emotionally draining experience of solitary confinement in apartheid South Africa during the height of repression and resistance in the second half of the 1980s."--

Subject

1. Fester, Gertrude
2. United Women's Organisation
3. 1900-1999
4. Women > Political activity > South Africa > Western Cape
5. Political prisoners > South Africa > Western Cape
6. Imprisonment > South Africa > Western Cape
7. Solitary confinement > South Africa > Biography
8. Imprisonment
9. Political prisoners
10. Politics and government
11. Solitary confinement
12. Women > Political activity
13. Gender identity
14. Women
15. South Africa > Politics and government > 20th century
16. South Africa
17. South Africa > Western Cape

Genre/Form

1. Autobiographies.
2. Biographies.

Call number

1. ReCAP 23-4916

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-288)

Author

1. Fester, Gertrude, author.

Title

1. Prison notebook V2957/88 / Gertrude Fester.

Publisher

1. South Africa : Gertrude Fester, 2022.

Copyright date

1. ©2022

Edition

1. First edition.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-288)

Chronological term

1. 1900-1999

LCCN

1. 2022371214

ISBN

1. 9781928332824 (paperback)
2. 192833282X (paperback)

Research call number

1. ReCAP 23-4916