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ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Timeline 1961-1990
… in the early 1961-64 sabotage campaigns are released from Robben Island. Among them are Joe Gqabi , Indres Naidoo, Ismail … Pamphlets are scattered demanding…
ArticleDefining culture, heritage and identity
… St. Lucia Wetland Park The uKhahlamba Drakensberg Park Robben Island The Fossil Hominid Sites of Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, …
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 …
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…
PlaceGraaff-Reinet
… most of the 1960's detained by the apartheid government on Robben Island . Another son of Graaff-Reinet was: ' Anton Rupert ', …
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.,…
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…
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,…
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…
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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…
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 …
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…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Contextual Overview
… of these cities were Zanzibar, Kilwa, Mombasa, Mozambique Island and Sofala. In the sixteenth century the Portuguese … massive stone fortresses in Kilwa,…
Re-emergence of resistance, 1980-89
… Sekhukhuneland region. Elleck Nchabaleng was released from Robben Island in 1984, having undergone an intensive struggle …