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… board. Jailed for murder in 1914, he spent 13 years in prison, during which time he experienced a Christian …

… She was allowed to visit Goldberg in Pretoria Central Prison twice in 20 years before his release in 1985, …

… Soweto students on 25 July 1976 and held at Modderbee prison in Johannesburg.Police said that he had been caught …

… 1988, police told his parents that he had escaped from prison. Bopape was survived by both parents and a brother. …

… for political offenders, the Barca d’Alva and the Aljuba Prison. In 1951, Tsafendas entered Mozambique illegally but … by declaring that he was Saint Peter himself. The prison authorities sent him to a hospital where Tsafendas … Peter. He was therefore declared insane, set free from the prison and soon afterwards released from the hospital. …

… to raise awareness and funds for the TIC. Sita went to prison twice during the campaign – in 1946 and again in 1947. … were arrested and sentenced to three months in Pretoria Prison for occupying a bench at the railway station marked … and all the passengers were detained and sent to Diepkloof Prison (known as Sun City), Transvaal. They were arrested on …

… boycott in protest against Bethal farmers' treatment of prison labourers. Ebrahim also helped organise the African … imprisonment, which he served on Robben Island. Whilst in prison he completed a BA degree, majoring in history and … and a BCom degree. Shortly before his release from prison in February 1979 Ebrahim was banned in terms of the …

… this time to write and memorize his next album while in prison.  Upon his discharge in 1989, Mbuli immediately … to risk of flight.  He was first held in Pretoria Central Prison and then moved to Pretoria Maximum Security Prison for 15 months.    During this time, Mbuli became close …

… Guilty and Proud: AN MK soldier's memoir of exile, prison and freedom - book cover …

… struggle. He was then transferred to Victor Verster Prison where he was detained for 90 days. He was one of over … for political participation in this period. Inside the prison, he explained, criminal and political prisoners were … and systems. They fought for better conditions in the prison, for example, demanding better mattresses and …

… Rev. Clive McBride. The second book Soledad Brothers - the prison letters of George Jackson, about an African-American … eventually reprieved while on death row. On release from prison, he worked on the peace desk of the African National …

… African National Congress. He had spent thirteen years in prison. Sexwale was elected to the ANC’s executive committee … for a Cape Town law firm and who he had met while in prison, shortly after his release. They have two children, …

… the day former President Nelson Mandela was released from prison. Holland tracked him down and presented him with a … ruler. Mugabe, who had just emerged from 11 years in prison, was about to escape over the border into Mozambique …

… among the youth while at Robben Island. While he was in prison his wife, Elda, passed away, but he was not allowed to … him of the use of his arms, leading to his release from prison in November 1988.  This disability did not deter him …

… out of school and went to work as a warder at Kroonstad prison. He only matriculated through correspondence in 1975. While still at the Kroonstad prison he was sent to study at the Baviaanspoort Training …

… words to his daughter: Above all then, my dear, I am in prison for the sake of peace for our country and the world. I am in prison so that our generation may leave to yours and later …

… in South Africa's apartheid regime received suspended prison sentences for plotting to kill Chikane. Former Police … in 1989. Chikane said he did not want to see the men go to prison. Vlok sought forgiveness from Chikane in 2006 by …

… a result he spent approximately 6 years in Robben Island Prison. He was released in 1969 and banished to Middledrift. …

… two whites were killed. He was sentenced to five years in prison. While he was making an unsuccessful appeal of his …

… on Robben Island during the apartheid era. While in prison he obtained a bachelor's degree from the University of …

… He was imprisoned for six months. Upon his release from prison he was banned and placed under house arrest for five …

… subject of wide publicity, he spent a night and a day in prison before being paroled with the rest of his sentence …

… confinement for years during the 1970s. Moved from one prison to the next, she endured some of the worst forms of … so severe that she would scream from the pain in her prison cell for long periods on end. When her daughter, …

… who gathered there that day. She spent five years in prison for political activism for leading a local anti-pass …

… a demostration by Soweto students.He was held at Modderbee prison. After he was reported missing for several days his … Vorster Square ,at which stage they learnt of his death. A prison spokesman said that Mr Mbatha was first called for …

… spirit. (Mail & Guardian, 1999) She was held at the Fort Prison in Hillbrow, Johannesburg , Transvaal, before being … moved to spend her three-year jail sentence at Kroonstad Prison in the Orange Free State (now Free State Province ) then later to Pretoria Maximum Prison in then Transvaal.  She spent almost two years in …

… at Burger Street Jail for a month in 1980. From the prison in Pietermaritzburg he was transferred to Modder Bee Prison in Benoni, East Rand, Transvaal (now Gauteng). On 12 June 1986 he was detained at New Prison, Pietermaritzburg, and remanded in custody for over …

… consciousness he found himself at the Pietermaritzburg Prison.  He was one of 14 members of the NEUM and its … in 1978. While on Robben Island he managed to outfox his prison guards by disguising his copy of the Complete Works of … which would have resulted in severe punishment from the prison authorities. The security police served him with …