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ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… traders tend to bypass the Cape itself, relying on Robben Island for fresh meat and water. 1554 24 April, The … sailors to ferry him and twenty of his…
ArchiveTheir party
… Words at bottom 'Sun Design', TIWI Designs, Bathurst Island. …
III - Black Consciousness
… Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki and others) were sent to Robben Island for the rest of their natural lives. Trials in many … After many years, even decades, of…
ArchiveImagine
… Dagsverk. Flags of Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Island. …
PlaceLiberia
… settlement under U.S. laws. They found shelter on Scherbo Island off the west coast of Africa, but many died from … ruler to sell a strip of land to the…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1990-1999
… forty-three political prisoners began a hunger strike on Robben Island demanding their release in order to strengthen the … tear glands were damaged by the…
PlaceEquatorial Guinea
… not able to prevent the Portuguese from settling on the island of Biko, which was inhabited by the Bubi society. In … to the Spanish government. Because of…
BiographyMichael Guthrie Scott
… the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) programme 'Desert Island Discs’ Benson mentioned how deeply she was in love …
ArchiveB S M 1982
… fist in the middle and cross on bottom on circle with word ISLAND, with the words Kahle Agget written on the bottom left …
EventHeart specialist Dr. Chris Barnard dies
… his hotel room in the coastal town of Phapos, on the Greek island Cyprus. Barnard was on holiday at the time of his …
Ahmed Kathrada pays tribute to Nelson Mandela, 6 December 2013
… us was part of a collective. Shortly after our arrival on Robben Island you told us: “We are no longer leaders; we don’t make … them and put them in the sun…
52 STEPS TO HEAVEN
… The son was in Pretoria, the father on the famous prison island off Cape Town. "Fortunately, with Robert we could go … death sentence. Her first visits to…
How Zuma, the smiling spy, controls South Africa by Joe Brock and Ed Cropley (World News), 04 May 2016, Johannesburg
… Natal, he had little formal education. After 10 years on Robben Island alongside Nelson Mandela, he fled apartheid South …
Links & Partnerships
… focus on South Africa and more contemporary issues). Robben Island Mayibuye Centre Archive South African Heritage …
Farewell To His Comrades: Message, September 19, 1983
… far from those entombed, tragically for so long, on Robben Island and Pretoria Central, now Pollsmoor or even …
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the annual conference of the Methodist Church Umtata, 18 September 1994
… himself shared imprisonment with us for some years on Robben Island. This you did, not as outsiders to the cause of …
Albertina Sisulu, Freedom Fighter
… to life imprisonment in June 1964, and was first on Robben Island and then was moved to Pollsmoor maximum security …
A tribute to international solidarity support for Southern Africa
… and they were given long prison sentences and sent to Robben Island. Comrade Andimba ya Toivo was released only in 1984. …
II - The Life of Steve Biko
… of the African National Congress, imprisoned for life on Robben Island; the late Robert Sobukwe , leader of the Pan …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Source Based Questions
… D: An etching of Christopher Columbus’s arrival on the island that he claimed as Hispaniola. Image Source 6. Analyse … subordinance coming from the local…
EventMerenstejin Sinks
… with a passenger capacity of 315, is wrecked off Jutten Island on the West Cape coast. It sunk with a cargo of gold …
ArticleNapoleon Bonaparte
… position as Emperor of France and was exiled to the small island of Elba, off the coast of Italy. However, in 1815, he … on 15 July 1815. This time he was…
Event33 American airmen arrive in Durban on a mission to launch a long-range missile
… Indian Ocean, somewhere in the vicinity of Prince Edward Island, 1,900 miles south-east of Cape Town. …
EventSoldiers die from gas leak at Naval base in Durban
… were killed and more than a dozen injured at the Salisbury Island Naval base in Durban. Three of the six people involved …
Control: 1910 - 1948
… Many of these leaders were captured and imprisoned on Robben Island or in the dungeons of the Cape Town Castle, others …
The African Resistance Movement (ARM): An Organisational History
… was sentenced to 15 years in prison, which he served on Robben Island . Baruch Hirson was sentenced to nine years in prison, …
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… seen in this picture. Photograph by Eli Weinberg © UWC Robben Island, Mayibuye Archives. After the formation of the Women's …
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… Duminy declares sovereignty over Angra PequeÁ±a, Halifax Island and Walvis Bay. Klaas Afrikaner conducts a raid with … He is tried and in May sentenced to…
How a mysterious ghost ship brought cosmic disco to Cape Verde: A new compilation documents the strange history of the African country’s groove-laden sound, formed following the discovery of a boatload of synths(The Guardian), 24 May 2016
… Somehow, the ship had been marooned on the São Nicolau island of Cabo Verde (now Cape Verde, but then a Portuguese … turn of fate can be directly credited…
The first Bram Fischer Memorial lecture, delivered by President Nelson R. Mandela Market Theatre, Johannesburg, 9 June 1995
… than the law. The last time that I saw Bram Fischer was on Robben Island about two weeks after we had been sentenced to life … release us saved our lives…