Q: First, congratulations on winning this year’s Sunday Times non-fiction award! How does it feel? A: I am absolutely delighted. What does this award mean to you? It means all those weekends and nights and holidays of slog were worth it! But, more important, I have always wanted the events of ‘Bloody Sunday’(November 9 1952) to be more widely known.
Nokhanime Thomas was an Eastern Cape-born liberation struggle veteran, a trade unionist and an underground operative in the ANC military wing, uMkhonto weSizwe. Born in Duncan Village’s Tsolo location in East London in 1940, Mamtshawe, as Thomas was affectionately known, was a community leader and unionist.
Bloody Sunday: The nun, the Defiance Campaign and South Africa s secret massacre – Mignonne Breier
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Bloody Sunday: The nun, the Defiance Campaign and South Africa s secret massacre – Mignonne Breier
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Sunday bloody Sunday: South Africa s devastating and tragic secret massacre msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
SAâs secret massacre
Durban - In a book called
Bloody Sunday, KZN-born academic and author has brought to light a lesser-known apartheid massacre that was more deadly than Sharpeville, and occured eight years earlier.
Between 80 and 200 people are believed to have been killed by police that day, after a meeting organised by the African National Congress Youth League. Two white people, including a Roman Catholic nun, were killed by mobs in retaliation. Yet few people know what happened, says author Mignonne Breier.
Mignonne Breierâs newly released book Bloody Sunday exposes some of South Africaâs hidden history.
âIt has not become part of the national discourse,â she told the Independent on Saturday in a telephone interview from Cape Town, where she is based at UCT.