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… their days breaking stones in the bleakness of Robben Island. Many others, trade unionists like Billy Nair, Raymond … Vandayar who completed a ten-year sentence on Robben Island last month, were immediately placed under house arrest …

… of Guinea-Bissau. The first permanent settlers of the island chain were Portuguese explorers who are believed to … on 30 June 1975. Cape Verde's precarious situation as an island state in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean led the …

… Country was named Mozambique by the Portuguese, after the Island of Mozambique.  Mozambique's capital and largest city …

… of all other African organizations who were in Robben Island prison. He started learning Afrikaans to understand …

… is at a point where traffic improvements will make a new Island and it is proposed to mark this Historic point with a …

… of the liberation movements were consigned to Robben Island or exiled. But her endorsement of violence to fight …

… compared to the much longer jail terms of the Robben Island prisoners who included Mandela. But he was seriously …

… da Boa Gente ('land of the good people'). At Mozambique Island, they forcefully engaged two Arab pilots and when the …

… the 1960's detained by the apartheid government on Robben Island . Another son of Graaff-Reinet was: ' Anton Rupert ', …

… that must endure through twenty years and more of Robben Island widowhood? For widowhood it is, this pattern of … smile. Eleven years later I learned from an ex-Robben Island prisoner that this press cutting had somehow made its way onto the Island and into Nelson's hands. It went the round of the …

… to move all lepers and paupers in the colony to Robben Island. A group of 16 lepers and 13 destitute persons from … 1852 1 December, Commissioning of a lighthouse on Bird Island. November, The Commercial Bank of Port Elizabeth …

… film industry is operating in a vacuum, or on some little island. South Africa is operating on an audio-visual playing …

… had a currency, in the form of nzimbu shells from a nearby island. The Kongo Kingdom had been in place for around 200 …

… Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki and others) were sent to Robben Island for the rest of their natural lives. Trials in many … many years, even decades, of imprisonment on the Robben Island, black prisoners, once released, plunged again into … activity. And the images of those remaining on the Island were still powerful. It was in this context that Steve …

… on 12 June 1964. Madiba was imprisoned on Robben Island where he remained for the eighteen of his twenty-seven … were sentenced to shorter prison terms began to leave the Island. Their spirits were not broken. Many of them rejoined … then. In March 1982, Madiba was transferred from Robben Island to Pollsmoor Prison, along with other senior ANC …

… friend of Zuma’s – they were imprisoned together on Robben Island and were members of the same military unit. The book …

… massacre everybody. But there was oozing out from Robben Island a sort of aura of this imprisoned man. I remember the …

… 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 followers to Robben Island . There the group remain, on and off, for the next … mainland Khoikhoi enemies and within easy reach of the Island's edible resources, which include penguins and seals. …

… Fugard and Winston Ntshona , ‘Sizwe Bansi is Dead and The Island.’ It was recognized as the first Pioneer Fringe …

… region. Elleck Nchabaleng was released from Robben Island in 1984, having undergone an intensive struggle …

… However, since Mr. Sisulu was imprisoned on Robin Island for 26 years, Albertina made it her life goal to …

… guilty and sentenced to five and six-year terms on Robben Island. The Soweto Uprising in June 1976 led to further state …

… Transvaal prisons. Gandhi, however, was never on Robben Island in the Cape, and we were never in Volksrust in the … were shared with his fellow political prisoners. On Robben Island, we observed the same principle. We took up issues on … to his cell by cab. That hot day repeated itself on Robben Island in the early sixties. We, like Gandhi's Indians, had …

… Western Cape. Ferris was a community leader who was on the Island and when he died people felt he should be remembered … political document for the ANC and allied organisations. Island — used like this the word refers to Robben Island, where many political prisoners were sent to serve out …

… Western Cape. Ferris was a community leader who was on the Island and when he died people felt he should be remembered … political document for the ANC and allied organisations. Island ”” used like this the word refers to Robben Island, where many political prisoners were sent to serve out …

… year the couple and their children moved to Robben Island, where Van Meerhof had been appointed superintendent, … was charged with disorderly conduct and banished to Robben Island, where she died five years later. Her descendants …

… struggle vetran and fellow prisoner with Mandela on Robben Island, Ahmed Kathrada, and the reshuffling of the cabinet to …

… stressful for her husband in his almost 30 years on Robben Island and in other prisons than it was for her, during those …

… shad. When the sardines run here in June/July, The Island becomes a popular fishing spot for big game fish which …