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EventNotorious Pirate, Captain William Kidd, is reportedly sighted off the coast of Cape Town
… for the English colony of Nevis. There they defended the island against French invasion. Kidd was then employed as a …
EventHundreds of thousands of people killed as tsunamis devastate large swathes of South and Southeast Asia, coming as far as South Africa
… struck off the Northwest coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The earthquake deformed the ocean floor, …
PlaceCompensation, Settlement near Durban
… sugar cane grown in Natal that was brought from Reunion Island. This Are was acquired in the 1880's, by Charles … sugar cane grown in Natal that was brought…
Umbrella Contemporary Dance Festival
… Akram Khan from the UK, Valerie Berger from Reunion Island and Pascal Montrouge from France. These artists … International companies included Eric Languet …
ArticleSouth African Students Movement (SASM)
… underground cells.’ Joe Gqabi , who had been released from Robben Island in the early 1970s and was living in Soweto, had some …
ArticleMandela and the South African Communist Party
… the FLN, Mohamed Lamari (right) Image source Photographer: Robben Island/Mayibuye Archive Relevance of the Communist Connection …
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 3 - Politics and Consciousness in Cape Town Communities, 1980-1985 by Sean Field
… 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…
Chapter 3 - Politics and Consciousness in Cape Town Communities, 1980-1985
… 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…
PlaceFranskraal and the Strandveld Museum
… get into the water with the mighty great white shark. Dyer Island is a small, but rewarding, nature reserve that is the …
PlaceMbotyi, Eastern Cape
… lagoon where cows will most probably be waiting on the island. Or take a mountain bike, routes to suit every rider …
PlaceMilnerton
… Dutch home which was the first house built on Woodbridge Island in 1929. It was built by Sir David Graaf and used by …
PlaceSwartvlei Estuary, Sedgefield
… estuary, the area between the river mouth, around the island and up to the N2 road bridge is great for canoeing. …
Chapter VIII - Treason - South African style 1
… it is no wonder that even after more than twenty years on Robben Island, South Africa's dreaded maximum-security gaol, he … of those drives together for in…
Nelson Mandela by O. R. Tambo - Extract from "No Easy Walk to Freedom: Articles, Speeches and Trial Addresses of Nelson Mandela edited by Ruth First", 1965.
… sentence of life imprisonment. Nelson Mandela is in Robben Island today. His inspiration lives on in the heart of every …
This item by Oliver Tambo was published as the introduction to the book "No Easy Walk to Freedom" by Ruth First, 01 June 1965
… the sentence of life imprisonment. Nelson Mandela is in Robben Island today. His inspiration lives on in the heart of every …
Speech by Oliver Tambo at the funeral of Joe Gqabi, Harare, 9 August 1981
… he was sentenced and ultimately had to serve 12 years on Robben Island. This brought him up to 1975 when he completed his …
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Johannesburg opening of the Anne Frank Exhibition at the Museum Africa Johannesburg, 15 August 1994
… exhibition, some of us read Anne Frank's Diary on Robben Island and derived much encouragement from it. Combined with …
Nelson Mandela by Oliver Tambo
… sentence of life imprisonment. Nelson Mandela is in Robben Island today. His inspiration lives on in the heart of every …
Chapter X - Final word
… treason. They are still in maximum-security prisons, on Robben Island and in Pollsmoor gaol. Their lives pass by while they …
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 1 - People, Politics and Ideology by Malegapuru William Makgoba
… leaders were, of course, the leaders imprisoned on Robben Island. The most famous of these was Nelson Mandela, whose … Source: Harriet Deacon (ed.), The…
ArticleConstructing heritage and heritage resources
… coastal forests, and salt and fresh water marshes. Robben Island was used as a prison for political prisoners for … against apartheid spent many years of…
ArticleAmericas by the 1500s
… holding a snake in its beak. They found the eagle on an island in Lake Texcoco, where they settled. According to … and part of Brazil. In 1620 they began to…
PlaceThe Old Slave Tree Memorial
… The site is now an octagonal memorial erected on a traffic island in remembrance of the very large number of slaves that … The site is now an octagonal…
PlaceLake Kariba, Zambia and Zimbabwe
Construction on Lake Kariba began in the early 1950's out of the necessity to generate hydroelectric energy for Zambia and Zimbabwe. Kariba was designed and…
PlaceGroot Constantia, Constantia Valley
… last requests before he died in exile on St. Helena island ! The British Royal Family and Fredrick the Great of …
ArchiveRadio Freedom: A History of South African Underground Radio by Chris A. Smith
… trial. Mandela was convicted of treason and shipped off to Robben Island, the apartheid regime’s version of Alcatraz. What was …
ArticleThe History of Separate Development in South Africa
… institution started as a University College on Salisbury Island in Durban Bay in the early 1960s. Student numbers grew …
PlaceMaputo National Park
… park includes: 'the former Maputo Elephant Reserve, Inhaca Island and the Machangulo Peninsula and a stretch of Ocean … park includes: 'the former Maputo…
Tribute to the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid - Statement at the Meeting of the Special Committee on its Tenth Anniversary by O. R. Tambo, New York, 2 April 1973
… community, continue to serve their harsh imprisonment on Robben Island and elsewhere in South Africa but they remain strong …
A tribute to Sam Ramsamy and others who fought apartheid sport by E.S. Reddy
… handed him over to South Africa. He was incarcerated on Robben Island and left for Britain on release. John Harris, Chairman …