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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 …
ArticleChanging Perceptions of Nelson Mandela
… smuggle the first draft of his autobiography out of Robben Island prison. An editorial entitled Mandela: Man, Legend 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…
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…
ArchiveTheir party
… Words at bottom 'Sun Design', TIWI Designs, Bathurst Island. …
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…
BiographyMichael Guthrie Scott
… the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) programme 'Desert Island Discs’ Benson mentioned how deeply she was in love …
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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 …
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 …
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…
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 …
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 …
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. …
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…
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 …