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… (ANC), Fester was charged for treason in 1988 and went to prison for two years. In prison, Fester was thrown into solitary confinement for five … between May 1987 and September 1987 while she was in prison. These entries vividly described her emotional state …

… he was caught. He was sentenced to seven years in prison where he befriended two inmates, Allan Heyl and Lee McCall. The three escaped from prison and began robbing banks. The media soon coined the …

… By the 1970s a number of leading figures in the ANC were in prison while others were in exile. Those that remained inside … are placed in solitary confinement at the Pretoria Central Prison under Section Six of the Terrorism Act. 26 March, The … Africa ’ 12 September, Steve Biko dies at the Pretoria prison hospital after being transported in the back of a …

… sentences for those who refused to do national service - prison terms of up to six years. In the 1970s, objections to … - Billy Paddock and Pete Hathorn, who spent a year each in prison. Paddock, a journalist, died in a road accident in the …

… this day, Nelson Mandela was released unconditionally from prison after 27 years. Accompanied by his then-wife Winnie, he left the Victor Verster prison (later renamed Drakenstein Correctional Centre) on the …

… on death row. Their death penalties were later commuted to prison sentences, ranging from twenty-five years to life. … (TRC) but were never compensated for their ordeal in prison. …

… about 02h00 and split into two groups, one to attack the prison and the other the police station. The latter group … the group fled, they met those who had been planning the prison attack and formed a new group which began attacking …

… served four and a half years before he was released. His prison experiences provided the background for the moving and … stories in Cold Stone Jug and it was while he was in prison that he wrote his first Oom Schalk Lourens stories. …

… almost invariably, they all want never to go back to prison and want nothing more to do with the crimes for which … exclusively for an audience of incarcerated men. In HM Prison Birmingham, around 40 images have been hung on the walls between cells, while in HM Prison Manchester, 20 works have been installed in the prison …

… was not arrested at the time as he was serving a five-year prison sentence for leaving the country illegally in 1962. … Goldreich and Wolpe later managed to escape from prison. Mandela and his co-accused were sentenced to life …

… was engaging in negotiations with Nelson Mandela in prison, and with the ANC in exile. More and more delegations, …

… Sandra Smith, was executed by hanging at Pretoria Central Prison. She was the last woman to be executed in South … a system that saw 3 500 people hanged at Pretoria Central Prison. …

… Literacy The unbanning of the ANC and the release from prison of Nelson Mandela and other senior members of the …

… exclusively for an audience of incarcerated men. In HM Prison Birmingham, around 40 images have been hung on the walls between cells, while in HM Prison Manchester, 20 works have been installed in the prison chapel. Two inmates have been trained to act as guides …

… until he was arrested and sentenced to five years in prison for incitement to strike and for leaving the country … West. Look at Cuba, for example. Wilton Mkwayi, later, in prison, told Ahmed Kathrada that he and Raymond would have … to be becoming very much colder. In the courtyard of the prison I looked out over the battlements at the dark evening …

… years ago Robben Island was proclaimed a maximum security prison for political prisoners …

… Strydom escaped the death penalty and stayed in prison until 1992. He was released as a part of the National … for himself in Brits with his wife who he married while in prison. …

… An extract from Michael Hathorn’s prison diary and notes from his 3 month detention in Durban …

… map of South Africa , with images of masked faces behind prison bars. …

… with artwork of Govan Mbeki, and images of people behind prison bars. …

… is taken first to Pretoria Central then to Pretoria Local Prison. 15 November,  Bram appears in the Johannesburg … Bram is convicted. 9 May, Bram is sentenced to life in prison on the count of sabotage; to twenty-four years on the … of Communism Act; to fines totaling R120 (or six months in prison) for six contraventions of the Aliens Act and to three …

… month, a Pretoria court sentenced nine men to terms in prison after they were found guilty of recruiting and … Meanwhile, the call to release Nelson Mandela from prison had, since the mid-1980s, become a global issue. At … , an ANC-aligned theologian, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for high treason, while his fiancée was sentenced to …

… to go underground and remaining leaders 'who weren't in prison - went into exile. Nana Mahomo, Peter Molotsi and … left South Africa in 1963, after being released from prison, and set up a PAC office in Maseru, where he assumed … 17 other PAC supporters, and was sentenced to 15 years in prison. In the post-Soweto period the PAC attempted to build …

… set up a fund to help the women who had been taken to prison. The United Party asked the Black Sash to close, in … which was set in Cape Town. Many families were sent to prison for political reasons and offenses. One of the most … left with nothing after the man of the family was taken to prison. Eventually, the Defense and Aid was banned and police …

… community leaders were detained and held at Victor Verster prison, near Paarl. On 1 September 1976 the unrest spread to … slapped with banning orders while others were sentenced to prison terms in a series of Terrorism trials in the late …

… Benoni. He lived a violent life, and served a number of prison terms, once for killing a school principal; another … to eighteen years' hard labour. After fifteen years in prison, he was released, only to find the world much changed. …

… Goldreich . TIYC’s involvement in the armed struggle, prison and exile life Early in the 1960s, TIYC leaders like … section, known as B Section, of the Maximum Security Prison. Other members of the TIYC members who were actively …

… Nyembe. Commemoration of her release from 15 years in prison, 1969-1984. …

… dropped out for various reasons or only went briefly to prison once, and it was the poor Tamil minority in the … resistance struggle.” Many of them not only suffered in prison but became destitute. But they continued the … three months with hard labour in the notorious Maritzburg prison.  The six infants were in prison with them. Mrs. …

… addressed to the Minister of Justice from Robben Island Prison Dated 22 April 1969; Published by the ANC in 1978 Dear … have requested me to write and ask you to release us from prison and, pending your decision on the matter, to accord us … letter live in the single cell section of Robben Island Prison and are completely isolated from the rest of the …