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EventANC attack on Booysens Police Station
… were scattered demanding the release of Walter Sisulu from Robben Island. In 2000, the Amnesty Committee of the Truth and …
EventNatoo Babenia is born
… and Umkhonto We Sizwe (MK) and served sixteen years on Robben Island. Babenia passed away on 1 January 1999 at the age of …
EventNelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa’s first democratic President
… Mandela spent the first 18 of his 27 years in jail at the Robben Island Prison. In June 1990 he retired from politics at the …
EventEnglish ship “Caesar” with William Pearse on board bound for Bantam arrives
… to 25 fath ouze, at which tyme we had sight of Pinguin Island [Robben Island], which is a loe Isle & hath 2 flagg staues to spread …
EventPresident Barack Obama visits South Africa
… and his family visited Cape Town, where they spent time at Robben Island, as well as Johannesburg where they met members of …
EventNelson Mandela’s son, Thembekile is killed in a car accident
… car accident while his father was serving life sentence on Robben Island. Mandela, who always played a brother figure for many …
EventUS President Bill Clinton arrives in Cape Town
… by President Nelson Mandela, who also accompanied them to Robben Island, where Mandela had spent 18 years in prison. …
EventTwenty former SA political prisoners launched a campaign against apartheid laws
… Verster Prison (1988-1990) after he was transferred from Robben Island (1982-1988) to Pollsmoor prison. Following this … July 2012)| South Africa.Info , …
ArticleNegotiations and the transition
… with senior members of the ANC was transferred from Robben Island to Pollsmoor prison after spending 18 years on Robben Island. Between 1984 and 1989 secret…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1700 - 1799 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… for the rest of their lives. They were incarcerated on Robben Island. Hadjie Matarim died in 1755 and lies buried in a tomb … the island. The karamat [tomb]…
ArchiveZondeni Veronica Sobukwe interviewed by Ntsikelelo Sandi,King Williams Town,12 May 1997
… I went to visit him I was told that he was transferred to Robben Island under the Sobukwe Clause. I took my younger sister … under the Sobukwe Clause. ADV…
EventMandela asks for commitment to fight AIDS
… live. He runs an AIDS foundation called "46664", his Robben Island prison number. Click here to read more about SA …
EventNelson Mandela announces his separation from his wife, Winnie Mandela.
… Mandela was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment on Robben Island. The couple were re-united in 1990 after Mandela's …
EventTrial of nine BPC and SASO leaders ends
… Town in the back of a police van, and from there taken to Robben Island. The nine were first detained by Security Police in …
EventThe Battle of Ulundi begins
… was captured in the Ngome forest in August and exiled to Robben Island next to Cape Town. The British casualties were said to …
EventAlbertina Sisulu’s banning order is renewed
… the wife of Walter Sisulu who was serving a life sentence Robben Island had her banning order renewed for another five years …
EventWalter Sisulu secretly attends a meeting at the house of George Xorile with F. Van Rensburg
… 1964, Sisulu and other treason trialists were taken to Robben Island, where he spent 25 years before being released in …
ArticleThe Cape Malay
… South Africa, Sheikh Yusuf was born in 1626 in Goa on the island of Celebes (today known as Sulawesi). Sheikh Yusuf was … with the English and was sent as a…
BiographyStephen Bantu Biko
… all sentenced to terms ranging from five to six years on Robben Island – it is possible that they would have received harsher … lost the case and were…
EventANC member and UDF-leader Christmas Tinto, is born in Mqanduli in the Transkei
… uprising, Tinto was detained in Pollsmoor Prison and on Robben Island until his release in 1978.In 1983, during the launch …
EventWalter Sisulu and others are arrested for attending a party
… among 8 of the accused sentenced to life imprisonment at Robben Island. He was released at the beginning of the negotiation …
EventBanned PAC leader Sobukwe is admitted as attorney
… as an attorney in Kimberley. In 1969, Sobukwe finally left Robben Island, only to be banished to Galeshewe township near …
EventPhambili Ka Ntloko, national organiser of AZAPO, is born
… Ntloko was one of seven others sentenced to five years in Robben Island for taking part in boycotts and burning of structures …
Submissions by the McGill University students 2012
… Newton, Massachusetts, but has lived in Providence, Rhode Island, New York City, New York, and Jerusalem, Israel. He is … them. More broadly, Nicolas' visit…
PlaceVictor Verster Prison
… to this prison, from the Maximum Security Prison on Robben Island in 1988, in preparation for his release on the 11th of … , a well known businessman who…
BiographyTheophilus Shepstone
… was found guilty of treason and rebellion and banished to Robben Island at the Cape for life. His sons and indunas were given …
BiographySir. Theophilus Shepstone
… was found guilty of treason and rebellion and banished to Robben Island at the Cape for life. His sons and indunas were given …
EventNelson Mandela is sentenced to five years for “incitement and leaving South Africa illegally”
… guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment. He was flown to Robben Island immediately after the trial to start serving his …
EventWell-known political activist and academic, Dr. Neville Alexander is born
… along with other members of the NLF and was imprisoned on Robben Island for 10 years. Upon his release, he did extensive work …
EventFive ANC leaders are released from prison
… (ANC) long term political prisoners were released from Robben Island. Among those leaders who were set free were Walter …