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BiographyReverend Allan Aubrey Boesak
… of Nelson Mandela, who had been transferred there from Robben Island. Boesak was detained and interrogated and his passport …
BiographyJudge Jan Hendrik Steyn
… sequel. This was a face-off with the prison commander on Robben Island, Colonel Badenhorst and the head of the prison …
BiographyBaden Powell
… In July 1907 BP ran a camp for a group of boys on Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour. In 1909 BP was knighted by King …
BiographyNorman Catherine
… collaborating with Walter Battiss on the project ‘Fook Island’. This project involved the building of Fook Manor at …
BiographyViolet Margaret Livingstone Ballinger
… and had been a prisoner of war for 18 months on St. Helena Island. Ballinger attended school in the Cape and went to …
BiographyHarold Athol Fugard
… by Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona 1973 The Island 1975 Dimetos (revised 1976) 1978 A Lesson from Aloes …
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Bibliography
… Cape Town, David Philip, 1989. Deacon, Harriet (ed.). The Island: A History of Robben Island, 1488-1990 . Online 1996. Available url: …
BiographyZuleikha Mayat
… , who was at that time serving his prison sentence on Robben Island . Upon hearing the news of the passing of his friend, …
BiographyKenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa
… and served as a federal administrator for the Bonny Island oil terminal. Nigeria experienced a civil war between …
ArchiveDiscussions between Mr Silvino Da Luz, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cape Verde, and Representatives of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Information: Sal Island, 11 September 1983
… of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Information: Sal Island, 11 September 1983 …
BiographyJustice Sfiso Mkame
… created a scene about the slave trade in Senegal’s Goree Island where, centuries ago, countless Africans were chained …
BiographyJudge Albert Louis “Albie” Sachs
… bombing. He also wrote a book with Indres Naidoo, entitled Island in Chains . In 1991 he received the Alan Paton Award …
BiographyRonald “Ron” Press
… radio receiver that could be smuggled to Nelson Mandela on Robben Island. The idea was to have the receiver in a pen and have …
BiographyHorst Gerhard Hermann Kleinschmidt
… her banning order, Nelson Mandela (from prison on Robben Island and through his attorney) and Winnie Mandela, …
BiographySheik Yusuf
Sheik Yusuf, ruler of Gowa on the Islands of Celebes in South East Asia, was born in 1626. He was also the brother of the Sultan of Macassar. In 1646 Yusuf…
The search for Peter Johnson’s story
… According to Ms Garland, Peter Johnson had been sent to Robben Island in 1969 for non-political reasons. Once there, he … Justice and Prisons, denied…
BiographyDimitri Tsafendas
… pleasure of the State President,” and spent four months on Robben Island before being transferred to a cell built specially for …
BiographyMlungiseleli Velaphi
… 1988. On the morning of 28 March 1988 while on a small island on the Mutale River, they were spotted by members of …
Reply of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki to the Toast by her Excellency, the Governor-General of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, Dame Ivy Dumont, Atlantis Resort Hotel: Paradise Island, Bahamas, 29 December 2003
… Bahamas, Dame Ivy Dumont, Atlantis Resort Hotel: Paradise Island, Bahamas, 29 December 2003 …
ArchiveMeeting between a South African delegation led by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Honourable R F Botha and a United States delegation led by Dr C Crocker, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs: Santa Maria, Sal Island, 1 November 1984
… Secretary of State for African Affairs: Santa Maria, Sal Island, 1 November 1984 …
BiographyKing Dinuzulu
… Shingana, guilty of high treason and exiled them to the island of St Helena. In 1897, Zululand was formally …
BiographyMannie Manim
… Sweden. Other productions he participated in include The Island at the National Theatre and the Old Vic in London, in …
ArchiveMeeting between a South African delegation led by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Honourable R F Botha and a United States delegation led by Dr C Crocker, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs: Santa Maria, Sal Island, 31 October 1984
… Secretary of State for African Affairs: Santa Maria, Sal Island, 31 October 1984 …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1960-1969
… (including Mandela) were acquitted of treason. 1 April, Robben Island is turned into a prison for those convicted of … for six months in Pretoria prison and…
BiographyBheki Cele
… in 1987 but was caught by the security police and sent to Robben Island , joining the cohort of other political activists and … Congress and uMkhonto weSizwe…
The First Slaves at the Cape
… community at the Cape. In May of 1657 Eva was sent to Robben Island to quarry stone as she was considered strong enough to … the quarried stones. Jan…
ArchiveMeeting between a South African delegation led by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Honourable R F Botha and a United States delegation led by Dr C Crocker, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs: Santa Maria, Sal Island, 31 October 1984, Af
… Secretary of State for African Affairs: Santa Maria, Sal Island, 31 October 1984, Af …
BiographyManonmoney "Ama" Naidoo
… Kathrada and Helen Joseph . To quote her son, Indres, Island in Chains, page 292: She died on Christmas Day 1993 at …
BiographyGovin Reddy
… Reddy acquired a place at the newly established Salisbury Island University set in the middle of Durban’s harbour. In … the then government’s policy of…
A brief history on South African prisons and prisoners
… prisoners (black political prisoners were held on Robben Island and several local prisons). Female prison The building … to those who were executed for…