Malibongwe / edited by Sono Molefe ; with a new preface by Uhuru Phalafala and a new introduction by Makhosazana Xaba.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Molefe, Sono, editor.

Phalafala, Uhuru, writer of preface.

Xaba, Makhosazana, writer of introduction.

John Louis Haney Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Protest poetry, South African (English)--Women authors.

Protest poetry, South African (English).

Political poetry, South African (English)--Women authors.

Political poetry, South African (English).

South African poetry (English)--Women authors.

South African poetry (English).

Women authors.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

192 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First South African edition.

Other Title:

Malibongwe : poems from the struggle by ANC women

Place of Publication:

Durban [South Africa] : uHhlanga, 2020.

Summary:

"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 - released in the early 1980s by Swedish, Danish and German publishers and anti-apartheid solidarity movements - was unsurprisingly 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"--Front flap.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: AFRICA SHALL BE FREE

Masechaba / Ilva Mackay

Mangaung / Lindiwe Mabuza

Umkhonto / Baleka Kgositsile

December sixteen / Lindiwe Mabuza

A new child is born / Gloria Mtungwa

BIRTH AND GENOCIDE

For my unborn child / Baleka Kgositsile

Black, eleven, and sterile / Lindiwe Mabuza

Tribal customs / Phyllis Altman

One life lost / Jumaimah Motaung

SPIRIT OF SOWETO: THE GHETTO, MASSACRES, RESOLVE

I must go: Do not mourn / Fezeka Makonese

Soweto road / Lindiwe Mabuza

Fallen hero / Gloria Nkadimeng

Childhood in Soweto / Lerato Kumalo

Soweto wishes / Lindiwe Mabuza

Venceremos / Ilva Mackay

Mother Patriot (June 16th, 1976, Soweto) / Rebecca Matlou

Years of the child / Baleka Kgositsile

Mayibuye / Ilva Mackay

WOMEN IN STRUGGLE

Women arise / Alice Tsongo

Militant beauty / Gloria Mtungwa

Super-women (Grown by apartheid) / Lindiwe Mabuza

The great day (August 9th) / Jumaimah Motaung

To our mothers! / Mpho Maruping

Ode to Aunt / Mary Anonymous

Dedication / Susan Lamu

Fighting woman / Duduzile Ndelu

The South African regime banned her / Phyllis Altman

Forget not our mothers / Ilva Mackay

OUR MEN WHO FOUGHT AND DIED AND FIGHT

I honour you all / Mpho Segomotso Dombo

This path / Rebecca Matlou

For prof / Baleka Kgositsile

Gone "forever" / Gloria Nkadimeng

Vuyisile Mini / Rebecca Matlou

For Duma Nokwe / Baleka Kgositsile

Duma Nokwe (The great leader of South Africa) / Fezeka Makonese

Oliver Waka Tambo / Rebecca Matlou

My country / Zinziswa Mandela

Mandela and all comrades in prison / Ilva Mackay

Spearhead / Baleka Kgositsile

Solomon Mahlangu (Addressing his jailers) / Rebecca Matlou

Solomon Mahlangu (Child of the revolution) / Gloria Mtungwa

Solomon my brother / Lindiwe Mabuza

PHASES OF STRUGGLE: RESOLUTION, EXILE, PERSPECTIVE, LOVE, CALL TO JUSTICE AND ARMS

To be young / Jeanette Solwandle

Hope / Phumzile Zulu

Exile blues / Baleka Kgositsile

It takes a heart / Jumaimah Motaung

To Zambia / Lindiwe Mabuza

Swim comrade / Rebecca Matlou

What do you say / Baleka Kgositsile

To a comrade / Lindiwe Mabuza

For my comrade / Rebecca Matlou

Agape: tomorrow / Lindiwe Mabuza

The gulp of unity / Rebecca Matlou

Faces of commitment / Lindiwe Mabuza

Old age fund / Susan Lamu

Open seasons / Lindiwe Mabuza

Fascism strikes again / Fezeka Makonese

You are mad: and I mean it / Phumzile Zulu

No more words now / Lerato Kumalo.

Notes:

This collection first published in English in 1981 as "Malibongwe : ANC women : poetry is also their weapon"

"This edition carries minor grammatical edits to the 1981 edition"

Includes bibliographical references (page 28).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Louis Haney Fund.

ISBN:

9780620869126

0620869127

OCLC:

1200035099

Publisher Number:

99986099135