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03096aam a2200529 i 4500 001 454F63524EAA11EDAB62559A42ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221018010048 008 220722s2022 sa b 000 0aeng 010 $a 2022371214 020 $a 192833282X 020 $a 9781928332824 035 $a (OCoLC)1329272542 040 $a OI@ $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OI@ $d OCLCF $d HUL $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a lccopycat 043 $a f-sa--- 050 00 $a DT1949.F47 $b A3 2022 082 04 $a 322.420968 $2 23 100 1 $a Fester, Gertrude, $e author. 245 10 $a Prison notebook V2957/88 / $c Gertrude Fester. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a South Africa : $b Gertrude Fester, $c 2022 300 $a 304 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations, portraits ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "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."-- $c Back cover. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-287). 600 10 $a Fester, Gertrude. 610 20 $a United Women's Organisation. 610 27 $a United Women's Organisation. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01465229 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 650 0 $a Women $x Political activity $z Western Cape. $z Western Cape. 650 0 $a Political prisoners $z Western Cape. $z Western Cape. 650 0 $a Imprisonment $z Western Cape. $z Western Cape. 650 0 $a Solitary confinement $z South Africa $v Biography. 650 7 $a Imprisonment. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00968277 650 7 $a Political prisoners. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01069636 650 7 $a Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919741 650 7 $a Solitary confinement. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01125554 650 7 $a Women $x Political activity. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01734136 651 0 $a South Africa $x Politics and government $y 20th century. 651 7 $a South Africa. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204616 651 7 $a South Africa $z Western Cape. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01272827 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919894 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117014413.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=454F63524EAA11EDAB62559A42ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search