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Damon – The Malabar Slave (Historic Alleys)
… I found that another Damon from Malabar was banished to Robben Island 12km away from Cape Town to work in chains for 15 … Nelson Mandela incidentally, was…
Nadine Gordimer`s key note speech - Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience Award
… years Nelson Mandela was imprisoned in our midst, for Robben Island is in sight of Table Mountain and Pollsmoor Prison is … population in South Africa. While…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1960-1969
… Accepting the medal meant 'celebrating Salisbury Island University, Job Reservation, apartheid and the lack of … their arrest, Moonsamy and Doorsamy were…
ArchiveThe Final Prize - Contents and Preface
… Levy “Everyone has a story”, Sephiwe, the librarian at the Robben Island Mayibuye Archive, said to me as he handed me the … the Witwatersrand; the National…
Some Personal Recollections of the Free Nelson Mandela Campaign by Mike Terry
… keynote speakers was Albert Dlomo, recently released from Robben Island. Subsequently I got to know Albert and his family well … London and I learnt even…
EventSlave rebellion at the Cape led by Louis of Mauritius. Over 300 slaves and Khoi Khoi servants from outlying farms marched on Cape Town demanding their freedom
… were given lessor sentences including imprisonment on Robben Island. …
PlaceTsolo
… Umtata. At the end of hostilities Mditswa was banished to Robben Island, while the magisterial seat, still known as Tsolo, was …
PlaceCape Town Civic Centre and the CBD of Cape Town
… , Noordhoek , Nyanga , Parow , Philadelphia , Philippi , Robben Island , Scarborough , Simon's Town , Sir Lowry's Pass , …
PlacePrestwich Memorial and Garden
… in 2008. The single-storey building is finished in grey Robben Island slate. The concept is one of a dignified Burial …
ArticleSlave Resistance
… were given lesser sentences including imprisonment on Robben Island while 244 slaves were returned to their owners. Galant …
BiographyNjinga Ana de Sousa
… be the colony of Angola. This outpost was set up on the island of Luanda and it would be a starting point for a long …
EventWalter Sisulu, co-founder of the ANCYL and Umkhonto we Sizwe, is born
… Mandela and other convicted Rivonia trialists were sent to Robben Island to serve their prison sentences. In October 1989 the …
PlaceZonnebloem College, Cape Town
… educated the sons and daughters of chiefs imprisoned on Robben Island in the aftermath of the Eighth and Ninth Frontier Wars … educated the sons and…
’UNITE! MOBILISE! FIGHT ON! BETWEEN THE ANVIL OF UNITED MASS ACTION AND THE HAMMER OF THE ARMED STRUGGLE WE SHALL CRUSH APARTHEID!’
… CALL TO UNITY AND MASS ACTION by political prisoners on Robben Island to all patriots of our motherland. Nelson Mandela and … aftermath of the Soweto…
BiographyWilliam Cock
… he secured a three-year contract for supplying the entire island with provisions. His business at the Cape prospered. …
Interview with Sunny Singh by C de Vos, Durban, 28 May 2002
… what was your sentence? SS Ten years. CDV Ten years on Robben Island? How did you feel when you heard that? SS You know … just before we, because I want to…
Poqo political trials and the execution of its operatives in the 1960s
… were sentenced to death, six to life in prison. Former Robben Island political prisoners point out that in the early years … 1962 and 1963, the majority of…
PlaceAntipolis and Romelia Shipwrecks, Cape Town
… running into a strong northwesterly gale as it approached Robben Island . The tug had made an unscheduled stop in Abidjan, (a … running into a strong…
PlaceGranger Bay
… with some of the most stunning views of Table Bay and Robben Island - providing some of the most worthwhile sunsets in …
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the murder of Griffiths Mxenge, 01 November 1981
… the University of Natal, Griffiths served three years on Robben Island prison after being convicted by the apartheid courts …
Nelson Mandela ‘Release Us or Treat Us as Political Prisoners’, 22 April 1969
… Letter addressed to the Minister of Justice from Robben Island Prison Dated 22 April 1969; Published by the ANC in … attached to this letter live in the…
ArticleThe spread of these ideas to Europe and Australia
… Extermination in Tasmania A shallow sea separates the island state of Tasmania from the rest of Australia. In 1777 … who survived were rounded up and removed…
Reports Concerning Slaves from India in South Africa
… fn). Fortuin van Bengal was convicted in 1770 and sent to Robben Island for life on the unproved suspicion of causing arson. … were tried. Adonis was…
ArchiveBiography of Amina Desai by Cole Deal
… was charged under the same crime as Desai and sentenced to Robben Island until his release in 1977. [17] For the next five … A Desai, Krugersdorp?. [13] Fran…
ArchivePostscript Ante by Howard Barrell
… executive committee, one of Mandela's closer colleagues in Robben Island prison between 1964 and 1976, between 1978 and 1983 …
Statement by Nelson R. Mandela on his relationship with his wife 13 April 1992
… the ANC and its allies. During the two decades I spent on Robben Island she was an indispensable pillar of support and comfort …
PlaceBloubergstrand, Tableview -Cape Town
… and is one of the World's top kite surfer destinations! Robben Island is located 6.9 kilometres West of the coast of …
ArticleLife Timeline of Jacob Zuma
… He is sentenced to 10 years in prison which he serves on Robben Island, where he serves on ANC structures within the Island. 1973 December, Zuma is released…
Address by President Mandela on receiving the freedom of the city of Cape Town Cape Town, 27 November 1997
… we are still grappling with today. If Cape Town's Robben Island was for centuries the symbol of repression, this city … of our history is both a strength and…
ArticleWomen and the struggle against Apartheid
… her support to those fighting apartheid and even visited Robben Island. She was awarded the United Nations Human Rights Award …