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… to take place this day from Athlone Stadium to Pollsmor Prison in Cape Town. The police prevent the march from … Morobe, Mohammed Valli Moosa and Vusi Khanyile escape from prison and take refuge at the US Consulate, Kine Centre, … to ten years each. December, after being transferred from Pollsmoor Prison to Victor Vester Prison, Mandela meets …

… Square, Cape Town and later transferred to Victor Verster Prison in Paarl, making it difficult for family to visit.  … of his political activities. After his release from prison, in 1977, he began working at Witwatersrand University …

… or tinned and they took turns to deliver it to the prison. They also assisted some of the detainees with their …

… of the 1980s, the State of Emergency saw him in and out of prison as he was subjected to constant harassment and …

… other Black Consciousness organisations were banned. From prison Mokoena wrote to Lybon Mabaso that ‘Your silence is …

… a conversation with one of them, asking him what he was in prison for. He was quite friendly and told me that he was … the next few years until Denis was eventually freed from prison and exiled in 1985. The rules governing our … the South African authorities to visit Denis Goldberg in prison, but permission was flatly denied. I was upset but not …

… midst, for Robben Island is in sight of Table Mountain and Pollsmoor Prison is part of Cape Town city. Entombed. Silenced. It was … at whatever the personal cost: for Mandela ‘Walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage’. Black South Africans had …

… Image source Walter Albertina celebrate his release from prison in Soweto in 1989. Image source The Defiance Campaign … as many of Albertina’s friends and comrades were either in prison or in exile. Albertina remembers the following about … from Soweto accused of the same offences) in Diepkloof Prison. The international Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) …

… were effective for ten years. They were held at Leeukop Prison where they were badly beaten by white warders. On 31 … a manual, he eventually learnt to read and write music. A prison board report of July 1984 showed that he had an …

… a cerebral thrombosis a few months after his release from prison, he died a few months later of a fatal heart attack at …

… transported to Johannesburg to be jailed at the Fort Prison but were only acquitted in 1961. Diedericks was …

… Hangula 9. Pin, Leong 09/10 09/10 19/11 ? ? ? Pretoria Prison Pretoria Prison Leeuwkop Prison, Pretoria 13 40 1 Suicide by hanging Suicide Sui 1967 …

… the times of apartheid, Blacks were continuously sent to prison for little or no reason making it even more difficult … and killed, raped, tortured in various ways, and sent into prison where some of the worst came for South African women. … an easy target to many security guards. Although life in prison for the woman was worse, confinement life was harsh …

… Comrades and Friends, Ten years ago today, while I was in Pollsmoor Prison, I felt shattered and terribly alone when I received … the service of the people of Southern Africa. She went to prison for her beliefs. She was murdered because of her acute …

… Surat under Regulation XXXV of 1827 and removed to Yeravda Prison. There was no trial, no sentence. Unconditionally … Bombay Regulation XXXV of 1827 and interned in the Yeravda Prison soon after return to India from England. Released … commenced his 21-day fast. September 20, Gandhi: (Yeravda Prison). Started at noon a perpetual and fast unto death, …

… was kept in solitary confinement at the Durban Westville Prison and was not allowed access to her one and a half year …

… prisoners, including the Rivonia trialists, release from prison under the specific condition that they give up the … with my Rivonia trial comrades but they were far away in Pollsmoor Prison in Cape Town and I was refused permission to … such as I have outlined. (I believe that my comrades in Pollsmoor Prison and on the Island would also participate, …

… together for hardly nine years, as he was constantly in prison or on trial or underground or away on political work … 1964, and was first on Robben Island and then was moved to Pollsmoor maximum security prison. He has had no parole or remission. The 1950s were a …

… Verster after he was transferred from Robben Island to Pollsmoor in 1982, then to Victor Verster in 1988-1990. The …

… wife, Kasturba Gandhi. She declared that she ‘would go to prison rather than be declared an unlawful wife'. Gandhi was … children and all the household chores if the women went to prison as a result of protesting. On the first day of the new … Volksrust before being transferred to the Pietermaritzburg prison in Natal. This act of protest by a relatively small …

… when he saw about one hundred detainees loaded into a prison van. This ‘feeling’ continued the next day and became …

… and his cousin Fred discovers Barberton 1884 Small hut prison is established 1874 The first traces of alluvial Gold … Railway from Kaapmurden to Barberton begins 1911 Female prison is established …

… the Defiance Campaign, which saw 8500 volunteers sent to prison. 12 August, Walter Sisulu and others are arrested on a … imprisonment and 3 years suspension. He risked 10 years in prison. 17 December, Walter Sisulu is served with a … and Andrew Mlangeni and Nelson Mandela were moved to Pollsmoor Prison. A few months later they were joined by …

… the Defiance Campaign, which saw 8500 volunteers sent to prison. 6 April, Sisulu is one of the speakers for a meeting … for suspended for 3 years. He risked 10 years in prison. 17 December, Sisulu is served a notification, in … and Wilton Mkwayi were moved from Robben Island to Pollsmoor prison in Cape Town. Later they are joined by Ahmed …

… M.D. Baruchi, paid the fine and Dadoo was released from prison. At the trial, Dadoo read a statement in which he … topic amongst the non-European community. In the Blue Sky Prison in Boksburg, Transvaal, Dadoo bore witness to the … Africa. Prior to receiving his sentence of three months in prison with hard labour, Dadoo issued another statement on 27 …

… (MK), were executed at the gallows in Pretoria Central Prison. Marcus Motaung , Jerry Mosololi and Simon Mogoerane … political activists found themselves serving long prison sentences in various gaols across the country. Over … executed by the apartheid government at Pretoria Central Prison. Two decades in particular – the 1960s and the 1980s – …

… respect for the sanctity of life was maintained. Later, in prison, you and fellow members of the High Organ took the … divisions of party-affiliation against the common foe, the prison administration. The qualities you embody provided a … five of the seven Rivonia Trialists were transferred to Pollsmoor Prison. For the first time we were together in one …

… charges of inciting violence 1924 Gandhi is released from prison after serving only two years of a six-year sentence … concluding the salt march 1931 Ghandi is released from prison Gandhi signs an agreement with Lord Irwin, Viceroy of … given immediate independence 1944 Gandhi is released from prison 1947 India gains independence from Britain India is …