On 2018-04-03 12:48:56 MrJ786 said:
Wrong platform dude.
On 2018-04-03 21:39:07 bbw4me said:
Winnie was banished to a dusty village, Brandfort, hundreds of miles from her Soweto home, and that, and an incident in 1969 broke her. In 1969, security branch came to her Soweto home at 3am. She was alone with her daughters, aged 10 and nine. Winnie asked to fetch her sister one street up so the girls would not be alone. The police refused, she was taken and her children left alone.
She spent 18 months in solitary confinement, naked, not allowed to wash, and not allowed out for exercises. She did not know what had become of her girls. She was not allowed sanitary towels when she had periods, nor water or cloths to clean, and so the blood caked on her. She made friends with cockroaches.
She had a plastic bottle with two-and-a-half litres of water for the whole day. That was your ration for the day and you drank from the bottle---there was no glass, you drank from that. Then you wiped your face with that and you just wiped your armpits and yourself.
Solitary confinement is worse than hard labour. When you do hard labour you are with other prisoners, you can tolerate it because you all dig together, you communicate and you are alive. Solitary confinement is meant to kill you alive. It is the most vicious punishment that you could wish on your worst enemy. You are imprisoned in this little cell. When you stretch your hands you touch the walls. You are reduced to a nobody, a non-value. It is like killing you alive. You are alive because you breathe. You are deprived of everything---your dignity, your everything.
This is what she went through.
On 2018-04-03 23:07:15 bbw4me said:
@Tegwane You should read
491 Days: Prisoner Number 1323/69 by Winnie Mandela
On 2018-04-03 21:05:37 chancetaker said:
Don't mind people like Lanavol. Apartheid sympathisers who miss being the benefits of privilege. He just can't handle seeing his privileged decrease so he lashes out. Last kicks of a dying horse.
Let's not give his patheticness anymore airtime than it needs