ABSTRACT
In this chapter the writer introduces the final woman held in detention in the Trial of 22, Nondwe “Brysina” Mankahla, who was born in the Red Location, on 28 August 1935. Nondwe is one of eight children whom her mother had to care for after her father died in 1952. She describes how, in the 1950s, it was fashionable, in a way, that young people became active in the ANC or African National Congress and that she found herself selling newspapers and fruit to make a living, but became a secret messenger for the freedom movement.
