Prison notebook V2957/88
By: Gertrude Fester
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Gertrude Fester
Published: 2022
Place of publication: South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781928332824
Subjects: Women; Political activity; Political prisoners; Imprisonment; Solitary confinement; Biography; Politics and government; United Women's Organisation
Description: "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."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-287).