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… is inspired by a true story and is set in an unnamed prison. The plays were widely performed in South African and …

… sentenced to imprisonment at the Barberton Women’s Prison , which was notorious for its brutal treatment of its …

… and Nelson Mandela are moved from Robben Island to Pollsmoor Prison. They are later joined by Ahmed Kathrada . 4 June, The … of marchers set off from different points in Cape Town to Pollsmoor Prison, despite the march being banned, to demand …

… ended the matter by discharging Heard's committal to prison. In September 1939 Heard was involved in lobbying for …

… took part in the Defiance Campaign and served a prison sentence for breaking a banning order.After he was …

… Eight of the accused were incarcerated on Robben Island Prison, with the exception of Goldberg, who was sent to … Member of Parliament (MP), to interview Mandela in Pollsmoor. Pollsmoor was the mainland prison in Cape Town to which …

… under the Suppression of Communism Act, serving his prison term at the Boksburg/Benoni jail. Molotsi got to know  … authority of the president of the PAC before he went to prison. The decision that he should leave was ratified by the …

… Mphahle, Makoropetse and a few generals were led to prison in Pretoria. He remained there until the Pretoria … death for murder and rebellion and was hanged in Pretoria prison on November 22,1883. Thus ended one of the stormiest …

… for breaking her banning order,  Nelson Mandela  (from prison on Robben Island and through his attorney) and Winnie … months imprisonment. But when she presented herself at the prison, she found that an anonymous person had paid her fine. …

… also been arrested. They were able to smuggle notes from prison to say that the police were looking for him and that …

… police informed her that Calata was detained in Diepkloof Prison in Johannesburg. Nomonde visited Calata in May 1984 …

… for the first time and held at the Johannesburg Fort prison under the 90 day Detention Act. At 19 years old, she …

… making him a focal point within the party [6] . While in prison in 1955, Lumumba reconsidered his status as an evolue …

… arrested and from 1964 until 1974 was jailed in the bleak prison on Robben Island. His fellow prisoners, Nelson Mandela …

… he could fight better against apartheid outside of prison, so he fled South Africa. Thus, in September 1974, he …

… 1977 until 1979. As a result of a ban on studies by the prison authorities, political debate became the only form of …

… her education and flee to Switzerland to escape the prison sentence that was almost certainly waiting for her due …

… and befriended fellow Methodist, Robert Sobukwe . The prison authorities curtailed Kotze’s time as chaplain when …

… The two made history when they exchanged wedding vows in Pollsmoor Prison in 1986. Oom Ray, a long-serving ANC political … The two were finally reunited when he was released from prison in 1989. In 1994 Ma Dixie became Eastern Cape`s First …

… Road or elsewhere in the City. But the grim walls of prison kept me ignorant of your trips to Soweto. The chance …

… country illegally. Sihlali was sentenced to five years* in prison which he served on Robben Island. After his release, …

… the end of 1985, Esau was detained at Victor Verster Prison for about thirty days in terms of the Emergency … Correctional Centre, then called Victor Verster Prison in 1989 he had the honour of meeting  Nelson Mandela . Esau was released from prison in 1991. After his release, he took part in the Truth …

… Shaun & Martin, Karen (Eds.). Till the time of Trial: The prison letters of Simon Nkoli, 2007. Available: …

… in the wee hours when Moosa 'Mosie' Moolla escaped from prison in 1963. Fortunately, they were the only ones at … with Ahmed Kathrada , who was at that time serving his prison sentence on Robben Island . Upon hearing the news of …

… Mamagobo was arrested and incarcerated at the Modderbee Prison in Benoni, Transvaal (now Gauteng) for 14 days. At the …

… He spent 54 days in solitary confinement at Pretoria Local Prison where he was repeatedly interrogated over three …

… was held in solitary confinement at Durban Central Prison and interrogated daily.  She eventually managed to …

… was sentenced to death and executed in Pretoria Central Prison on 1 April 1965, the only white “political” hanged by … and colleagues in their trials. All but one went to prison. Eddie Daniels served 15 years on Robben Island and … Lewin went into exile in the UK after being released from prison and for a long time could not see any possibility of …

… he was arrested while photographing protesters outside the prison where Winnie Mandela and 21 other political activists …