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… Biko was found dead on a cold cement floor in a Pretoria prison, police claimed that he died of hunger strike. The …

… “on Women's Day we occupied the prison's surgery” During the time of the UDF (United …

… comrades. I shall not read the full list of names. In prison at this time are some hundreds of political and … show far more graphically than any words can describe what prison means. They show the distortions of life; they show a mother and her babies in prison. They show a people in prison but on their feet, not …

… concert comes a few months after Mandela's release from prison and is attended by over 72 000 people and watched on …

… The Bastille is a medieval fortress used as a prison by French kings. On 14 July 1789, troops stormed the …

… them to Robben Island, where Mandela had spent 18 years in prison. …

… together before Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in prison as one of the Rivonia Trialists in 1963. It is …

… political parties. Subsequently, Mandela was released from prison on 11 February, 1990. … African History Online , ‘Nelson Mandela is released from prison after 27 years’ , [online], available at …

… National Congress who was held prisoner at the ANC Quatro prison camp in Angola for seven months and spent another …

… his involvement in MK. Mkwayi had to fight Robben Island prison authorities for twenty years for the right to marry …

… ka-Cetshwayo, King of the Zulu nation, released from prison by Prime Minister Gen. Louis Botha, who also saw to it …

… students uprising, in her 18 months in Pretoria Central Prison where she was tortured, humiliated and kept in … later, in 1997. Cebekhulu was then held secretly in prison for two years without trial in Lusaka, by order of … By the time of the interview, Winnie Mandela’s intended prison term had been reduced on appeal to a suspended …

… married trouble." The couple had two daughters before the prison doors slammed behind Mandela in 1964. In the coming … with Mandela had endured through letters and visits to prison and when he was released in 1990, Winnie was there … by the apartheid regime, and he wrote to her from prison. When they met in Mozambique's capital Maputo in 1990, …

… Centre in June 2015, after having served 22 years in prison. . Derby-Lewis was convicted for his role in the …

… kill Whites, were acquitted on the charge, but were given prison sentences ranging from seven to one year's …

… of the 26 370 Boer women and children who died in prison camps during the South African War . This monument,  …

… on a government location.Chief Malebogo languished in prison until 1900, when the British authorities allowed him …

… activism despite and because she served the longest prison sentence given to a female political activist in the … of Communism Act, she became the face of women in prison and of the women’s struggle for freedom, as she not … when she was just sixteen, to enduring multiple stints in prison, enduring treatment much crueler than what most …

… of 6 September, Biko was taken from the Walmer Street prison by security police, and brought to Room 619, Sanlam … not question Biko. It was decided to transfer him to the prison hospital. Evenings of 8 September, Biko is taken to prison hospital A specialist physician. Dr. Hersch, was …

… for his defiance and was fined R50, 00 or one month in prison. On 28 October 1976, he was arrested for refusing to …

… unfit to stand trial and was sent to Pretoria Central Prison, where he spent 28 years on death row. During the last …

… of rape with the possibility of spending six years in prison. He was replaced by Alan Dawson in the South African …

… other “unnatural acts” and was sentenced to 10 years in prison, with 9 years suspended.  Eventually he served eight …

… announced that Lumumba, 36, had escaped from Kolatey prison farm in the west of the breakaway province.  …

… document presented here ”” Nelson Mandela’s statement from prison on being offered conditional release ”” within its …

… on the charges. He began his sentence in Pretoria Central Prison. …

… through the University of South Africa (UNISA) while in prison. …

… of South Africa better understand gangsterism and the prison system. There by providing a positive alternative, for … text and imagery, as well as experiencing a replica of a prison cell! This all facilitated by ex-offenders themselves. The Museum includes a prison cell, where an ex-offender and gang member is …

… trialists were sent to Robben Island to serve their prison sentences. In October 1989 the South African government released Sisulu from prison. In July 1991 Sisulu was elected ANC …

… to find my feet in my new home. After the lonely time in prison Esmé’s house was quite a shock. She had many young … to make decisions for me. Comrades who had come out of prison after much shorter prison terms had taken much too long to adjust because their …