In the media
Radio – Podcasts and Extracts
TimesLive Writer’s Block, Episode 3: Interview with Ayanda Charlie, 2023
High School History Recap interview with Billy Palk and Colin du Plessis, October 2022
A Secret Apartheid Massacre with Dr Mignonne Breier.
Mary-Ann Alho, book reviewer, Radio Veritas (Catholic radio station, South Africa)
Bloody Sunday really made an impression on me. I believe it crossed my path to give me spiritual food for thought.
Mandy Wiener, Book of the Week, Midday Report, Cape Talk/Radio 702
Bloody Sunday is a gripping read.. meticulously researched.. written it in such a compelling way. I couldn’t put it down.
John Maytham, talk show host, Cape Talk
I was fascinated from Page One to the end. Thank you very much for doing the work and putting it on these pages with such craft and such skill, such compassion, such humanity,’.
Sue Grant-Marshall, Reading Matters, Radio Today
“Bloody Sunday is beautifully told, in clear, accessible prose. It belongs in schools and libraries.”
Vanessa Levenstein, Fine Music Radio, Book Choice
There is a special skill set required to blend hard journalism and heart-filled storytelling. It takes someone with a strong stomach and stamina to research grotesque acts of violence. … Statues must fall, monuments are destroyed, which leaves us with the power of the narrative. It is in the telling of these stories, the reclaiming of this tragic day as part of our collective history, that we remember the nameless and faceless. We remember June 16 through the lens of the photographer Sam Nzima, who captured the iconic image of Hector Pieterson. We will remember Bloody Sunday through the lens of a formidable writer, and her portrait of a brave Irish Nun. Listen to the readingJenny Crwys-Williams, Hot 102.7 FM, 11 – 16 September 2022
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Online Video Interviews
Digital book launch, hosted by Exclusive books. Interview with Prof Anton Harber, professor of journalism at Wits University, founder editor of the Weekly Mail (now Mail and Guardian)
Father Anthony Egan, SJ, in an interview with the author for Spiritfest (linked to the National Arts Festival, Makhanda/Grahamstown)
From the point of view of an academic history ‘Bloody Sunday’ is excellent. It is excellent research and even more excellent because it is written in language that is coherent and readable.
As one who has been involved in the history of the Catholic church in South Africa , but also of the history of church and state relations [I know there is ] very little published material that is, firstly, and secondly that is good. I do think this book is a very interesting contribution. Even in histories of the Catholic church, Sister Aidan gets a little footnote or brief reference and then they quickly pass on and go in a different direction. Any kind of work like this that contributes to a deeper understanding to the history of the church, the history of the church- state relations, the complexities of religion and society is very valuable, very important.
Interview with Thabi Madiba, Polity
From the point of view of an academic history ‘Bloody Sunday’ is excellent. It is excellent research and even more excellent because it is written in language that is coherent and readable.
Bloody Sunday, winner of the Sunday Times Literary Award for Non-fiction: an interview with Mignonne Breier, LitNet
Mignonne Breier, winner of the Sunday Times Literary Award for Non-fiction, answers Naomi Meyer’s questions on Bloody Sunday.
Christopher Clohessy, @purplepadre, Pontifical Institute for Islamic and Arabic Studies, Rome, on Twitter’
A scorching and gut-wrenching read for those interested in some of the worst moments of the apartheid regime in South Africa. Not a book for those who would go through life unscathed. Its pages will leave you scarred
News Reports about ‘Bloody Sunday’
The book has been extensively reported in newspaper articles which saw the revelation of details about the massacre and the nun’s death as a news item or carried extensive extracts from the book. The following are some examples:
Cape Times: The tragic tale of the Duncan Village massacre
Daily Dispatch: Real Facts of Duncan Village tragedy almost lost to history, 20 March 2021
Daily Dispatch: The shame of Duncan Village’s ‘Bloody Sunday’ Massacre 6 May 2021
Herald: Eastern Cape author opens the book on Bloody Sunday, 6 May 2021
Independent on Saturday SA’s apartheid hidden massacre, 17 April 2021
Saturday Star, Exposing South Africa’s secret massacre, 17 April 2021
Witness, Silence after a brutal massacre, 9 August 2021
Kokstad Advertiser, Kokstad born author writes about South Africa’s secret massacre, 20 May 2021
Wits Review, Humanitarians from the 1940s, a tale of two medics (article about Sister Aidan and Dr James Njongwe, based on Bloody Sunday), October 2021.