In a coarse sackcloth robe worn over a hairshirt, she sits alone in her stone-floored cell. Her food is bread, water, an occasional cooked vegetable. Through a small grilled window she may look ...

Saffron robes and sackcloth . by Tony Jackman 24 March 2009 2 April 2009. You have to wonder what liberation really meant for the ANC if the organisation can bar one of the world’s greatest beacons of ...

“The word reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes” (Jonah 3:6).