Malibongwe

In the late 1970s, Lindiwe Mabuza, a.k.a. Sono Molefe, sent out a
call for poems written by women in anc camps and offices throughout
Africa and the world. The book that resulted, published and distributed
in Europe in the early 1980s, was banned by the apartheid regime.
Half-forgotten, it has never appeared in a South African edition – until
now.

Authorised by the editor, this re-issue of Malibongwe
re-establishes a place for women artists in the history of South
Africa’s liberation. These are the struggles within the Struggle: a book
that records the hopes and fears, the drives and disappointments, and
the motivation and resilience of women at the front lines of the battle
against apartheid. Here we see the evidence, too often airbrushed out of
the narratives of national liberation, of a deep and unrelenting
radicalism within women; of a dream of a South Africa in which not only
freedom reigned, but justice too.