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Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1970 - 1979
… Dadoo brings Mac Maharaj (who served twelve years on Robben Island and is exiled in Zambia) and Aziz Pahad based in …
The genesis of the armed struggle, 1960-1966
… of his colleagues were sentenced to life imprisonment on Robben Island in June 1964. Oliver Tambo, a senior member of the ANC …
ArticleSouth Africa needs a national holiday on 16 November to acknowledge its indentured
… the Black Consciousness Movement who was imprisoned in Robben Island in 1976 in a cell diagonally across from Mandela’s) …
Observatory - Steeped in History and Heritage by Patric Mallet
… Chief Xhore drove them off and they sought refuge on Robben Island. Only 3 of the original settler party of over 20 made … He and 30 of his followers were…
PlaceMadagascar
… Madagascar is referred to as: 'the big red island'. Madagascar is the largest African island situated in the Indian Ocean, about 450 km (280 mi) … east of…
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA ON RECEIVING THE FREEDOM OF PIETERMARITZBURG Pietermaritzburg, 25 April 1997
… Amongst them are those who are today honoured graduates of Robben Island and other prisons of apartheid. I know, Mr. Mayor, …
Indian Slaves in South Africa: Notes for monograph, 26 June 1995
… Council of Social Research). de Villiers, Simon A. Robben Island: Out of Reach, Out of Mind - A History of Robben Island. Cape Town: C. Struik (Pty) Ltd.,…
PlaceGraaff-Reinet
… most of the 1960's detained by the apartheid government on Robben Island . Another son of Graaff-Reinet was: ' Anton Rupert ', …
PlaceSão Tomé and Príncipe
… late 15th Century the Portuguese sent out settlers to the island's to grow sugar. This included many convicts and … king of the slaves who nearly overran the…
ArticleDutch East India Company (DEIC)/VOC
… that the VOC was forcing onto them. A prime example is the island of Banda in the Indonesian Archipelago. The VOC simply killed off the Bandanese,…
Part 2: Ahmed Kathy Kathrada Addresses Gandhi Satyagraha Tour Delegates
… with Rivonia Trialist Ahmed “Kathy” Kathrada and Robben Islanders Laloo “Isu” Chiba and Shirish Nanabhai. … - Nelson Mandela Foundation: Meeting with the …
Address by Oliver Tambo on receiving the Degree of Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, 09 May 1986, New Delhi
… of this noble goal? Today a part of myself is on Robben Island and Pollsmoor, where hundreds who have given up their … Peace (1979). In his letter of…
"We are of the World and the World is with Us": Address on Receiving the Degree of Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa from the Jawaharlal Nehru University by O. R. Tambo , New Delhi, 9 May 1986
… of this noble goal? Today a part of myself is on Robben Island and Pollsmoor, where hundreds who have given up their … Peace (1979). In his letter of…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at a press conference in Addis Ababa, 11 July 1973
… and spend their days breaking stones in the bleakness of Robben Island. Many others, trade unionists like Billy Nair, Raymond … and Reggie Vandayar who…
Prisoners of Apartheid - Statement at a Press Conference in Addis Ababa by O. R. Tambo, 11 July 1973
… and spend their days breaking stones in the bleakness of Robben Island. Many others, trade unionists like Billy Nair, Raymond … and Reggie Vandayar who…
Interview: The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navanethem (Navi) Pillay
… torture and helping establish key rights for prisoners on Robben Island. After the end of apartheid, Ms Pillay was appointed … leadership from Nelson Mandela…
Part 3: Ahmed Kathrada and Arun Gandhi - Gandhi Satyagraha Tour SA
… with Rivonia Trialist Ahmed “Kathy” Kathrada and Robben Islanders Laloo “Isu” Chiba and Shirish Nanabhai. … - Nelson Mandela Foundation: Meeting with the …
ArchiveMandela, From a Freedom Fighter to an Icon of Reconciliation
… militants of all other African organizations who were in Robben Island prison. He started learning Afrikaans to understand …
ArchiveHugh Lewin obituary by Peter Hain (www.theguardian.com), 21 January 2019
… ticket” compared to the much longer jail terms of the Robben Island prisoners who included Mandela. But he was seriously …
ArchiveSouth Africa’s ‘Mother of the Nation’ who was never First Lady by Mashupye Herbert Maserumule (TheConversation.com), 3 April 2018
… leadership of the liberation movements were consigned to Robben Island or exiled. But her endorsement of violence to fight …
PlaceSao Bento Shipwreck, Coffee Bay
… This vessel grounded in 1554, on the rocks of the little island where the Msikaba River meets the sea. Only 23 people … hours on the nearby beach, swimming,…
PlaceMauritius
… equator, it is considered part of Africa. Mauritius is an island nation comprised of smaller islands and archipelagos. … in 1892, and today is the largest…
EventThe Childe Herold is shipwrecked
… is shipwrecked The Childe Herold is shipwrecked off Dassen Island. A 463-ton British wooden ship, the Childe Herold, en route from Bombay to London is…
PlaceWooden Bridge over Lagoon, Milnerton, Cape Town
… on 17 July 1987. Milnerton 's iconic Woodbridge Island is now set for a R20 million makeover. Mayco Member … Royal Engineers in order to gain military…
How Zweli ‘misled’ Khwezi, 17 September 2017
… a good friend of Zuma’s – they were imprisoned together on Robben Island and were members of the same military unit. The book …
Baroness Castle of Blackburn opened an exhibition on the history of the Anti-Apartheid Movement at the opening session of the Symposium
… ready to massacre everybody. But there was oozing out from Robben Island a sort of aura of this imprisoned man. I remember the …
ArticleThe Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications by Allison Drew
… Anti-Apartheid Movement logo – designed the publications’ Robben Island Our University poster and the shield and spear logo on …
EventHaitian leader General Raoul Cedras resigns in favour of exiled President Jean
… with the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492. The island was named Hispaniola and became the territory of the Spanish crown until the western part of the…
ANNOUNCEMENT OF ANC CANDIDATE PREMIERS, 23 April 1999
… assistance to families to visit their their loved ones on Robben Island working with the South African Council of Churches. … and sentenced to ten years…
Re-emergence of resistance, 1980-89
… Sekhukhuneland region. Elleck Nchabaleng was released from Robben Island in 1984, having undergone an intensive struggle …