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ArticleAfrican Peoples Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA)
… some of their members in 1974 and 1975 after ten years on Robben Island. One such activist released at this time and active in …
ArticlePolitical executions in South Africa by the apartheid government 1961 - 1989
… murder. While several were sentenced to lengthy terms on Robben Island , others were put to death. On 1 October 1963 four … death sentence to 20 years in…
ArticlePeter Henry Abrahams timeline 1919 - 1985
… by the Colonial Office to write a popular history of the Island. 1956 A Wreath for Udomo is published, a story with … to modernize and transform his country…
ArticleThe Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications
… Anti-Apartheid Movement logo – designed the publications’ Robben Island Our University poster and the shield and spear logo on …
ArticleThe Khoisan
… over to the colonial authorities, who banished them to Robben Island. Later, a prolonged drought forced White settlers and …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)
… in Cape Town. Peter Mokaba, a former political prisoner on Robben Island, was appointed as president of SAYCO and Rapu Molekane …
Indian South Africans timeline 1970-1979
… periods of imprisonment ranging from five to ten years on Robben Island: Saths Cooper, 'Terror' Lekota , Muntu Myeza , Aubrey …
Article1960-1966: The genesis of the armed struggle
… of his colleagues were sentenced to life imprisonment on Robben Island in June 1964. Oliver Tambo, a senior member of the ANC …
ArticleList of people banned under Apartheid
… sentenced to 10 years. imprisonment which he served on Robben Island; 5 days before his release he was served with a … os S.A.(Apdusa) and sentenced to 6…
Article‘Liberated’ Slaves? by Joline Young
… in 1824. Jean Elle, formerly a ‘free citizen’ of the Island of Bourbon (now Reunion), was a Sailor Cook on the … who fell foul of the law for stealing and…
ArticleAftermath of the Bhambatha Rebellion 1906
… sentences were later commuted to life imprisonment on the island of St. Helena. In 1910 they were granted amnesty and …
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 …
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) …
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,…
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 …
Re-emergence of resistance, 1980-89
… Sekhukhuneland region. Elleck Nchabaleng was released from Robben Island in 1984, having undergone an intensive struggle …
ArticleThe Crackdown on the Black Consciousness Movement in 1973
… found guilty and sentenced to five and six-year terms on Robben Island. The Soweto Uprising in June 1976 led to further state …
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,…
Article1970s: Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… Parliament called the 'Sobukwe Clause', and transferred to Robben Island. The 'Sobukwe Clause' was approved annually. On the Island, he was completely…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1990s
… hundred political prisoners began a hunger strike at Robben Island, the country's highest-security prison, to demand that … been freed at the end of the year…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1960-1969
… the country via Swaziland, Lesotho and Botswana. 1 April, Robben Island is turned into a prison for those convicted of … , Laloo Chiba, Raymond Nyanda and…
ArticleThe Impact of Colonialism
… (These men were later murdered by the inhabitants of the island for mistreating them). On his second voyage, Columbus … fought among themselves and with the…
ArticleThembisile Chris Hani Timeline 1942 - 2003
… Kotane welcome a large crowd of prisoners released from Robben Island after the signing of the DF Malan Accord. 2-6 July, At …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1940-1949
… stayed three months. He also viewed the isolated prison of Robben Island from the vantage point of Table Mountain. Mandela left …
ArticleAfrican Resistance Movement (ARM)
… was sentenced to 15 years in prison, which he served on Robben Island . Baruch Hirson was sentenced to nine years in prison, …
Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
… were arrested across the country. Some were sent to Robben Island prison to serve lengthy sentences while others were …
Biography of Lefifi Tladi by Paul Linck
… to tell him that he could either spend 18 years on Robben Island, or leave the country [xxv] . Tladi and his co-accused …