• BRANDFORT, liberation capital, (1977-86), decomposed, an-arranged and reproduced by chimurenga

BRANDFORT, liberation capital, (1977-86), decomposed, an-arranged and reproduced by chimurenga

: Edjabe (N.) et al

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141pp., illus., paperback, Chimurenga, (Cape Town), 2025

ISBN: 9781067222802

 

Includes a fold-out street plan of Brandfort, loosely inserted.

A special edition of Chimurenga Chronic, exploring the work of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela during her banishment to Brandfort, 1977-86.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (1936-2018) was involved in South Africa's liberation struggle from the 1950s and was detained and  imprisoned on several occasions. Following the 1976 Soweto youth uprising, she served six months at The Fort Prison. On 16 May 1977, she was taken directly from her cell to Brandfort, a small rural town in the Free State infamous as the location of British concentration camps during the Second Anglo-Boer War, and once home to Hendrik Verwoerd. During her nine years at 802 Mothupi Street her activism transformed the town into a centre of black resistance.