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Apartheid’s hidden histories

Mignonne Breier, Bloody Sunday: The Nun, the Defiance Campaign and South Africa’s Secret Massacre (Cape Town, Tafelberg, 2021), 304 pp., paperback, £38.68, R380, ISBN 978-0624091141; e-book, £8.74, R380, ISBN 978-0624091158

 

Notes

1 A. Mager and G. Minkley, ‘Reaping the Whirlwind: The East London Riots of 1952’, in P. Bonner, P. Delius and D. Posel (eds), Apartheid’s Genesis: 1935-1962 (Johannesburg, Ravan Press, 1993), pp. 229–51.

2 Quoted in L.J. Bank, Home Spaces, Street Styles: Contesting Power and Identity in a South African City (Johannesburg, Wits University Press, 2011), p. 219.

3 C. Thomas, Tangling the Lion’s Tale: Donald Card from Apartheid Era Cop to Crusader for Justice (East London, Donald Card, 2007), ISBN 978-0-620-39081-1, pp. 40–1. The massacre is discussed in some detail by L. Bank and B. Carton in ‘Forgetting Apartheid: History, Culture and the Body of a Nun’, Africa, 86, 3 (2016), pp. 480–5. Breier, however, is willing to credit Card for introducing these events to the historical record.

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