491 DAYS, prisoner number 1323/69

249 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2013

In 1969 Winnie Mandela was detained and place in solitary confinement for 491 days under the notorious Terrorism Act. This book includes the journal she wrote while in detention, as well as some of the letters written between affected parties at the time. Many of the letters are written to and by Nelson Mandela, then on Robben Island.

Foreword by Ahmed Kathrada.