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BOOK EXCERPT: ‘No time for tears’ on Robben Island: When Lilian Ngoyi visited Madiba in prison

Martha Evans’s biography of anti-apartheid activist Lilian Ngoyi, one of the leaders of the 1956 Women’s March, is published to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the march. This excerpt details her visit with Nelson Mandela on Robben Island in 1973.