Book Review: Women in Solitary: Inside South Africa's Female Resistance to Apartheid by Naidoo, Shanthini.

Naidoo, Shanthini (2022), Women in Solitary: Inside South Africa's Female Resistance to Apartheid, New York: Routledge, ISBN: 978-1-003-22890-5 (E-Book), 169 pages Although the anti-apartheid struggle witnessed the involvement of women revolutionaries and members from several other ethnic groups, its grand narrative highlights the idea that it was basically a conflict between the white male oppressors and black male revolutionaries. Chapter 2 describes author's first encounter with the activists at Winnie's funeral. These chapters capture in detail the testimonies of the women revolutionaries and inform of a past, filled with unimaginable horrors of incarceration and bloodshed. [Extracted from the article]