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ArticleChanging Perceptions of Nelson Mandela
… smuggle the first draft of his autobiography out of Robben Island prison. An editorial entitled Mandela: Man, Legend and …
ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… 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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
ArticleAfrica, Portugal
… of these cities were Zanzibar, Kilwa, Mombasa, Mozambique Island and Sofala. In the sixteenth century the Portuguese … massive stone fortresses in Kilwa,…
ArticleTransport on water
… fishing or travelling between islands within the same island group. As people began to explore the seas further, …
ArticleThe International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
… to be used for meetings’. He was sentenced to 54 months on Robben Island. On appeal in the Supreme Court, his sentence was … charge, was included among the…
ArticlePort Elizabeth Timeline 1799-1986
… decides 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…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions Timeline 1919-1997
… for life, having earlier been sentenced for eight years to Robben Island . Viola Hashe dies. 2 August, Elijah Loza dies in …
Ruth First Untold by Jerry Saena
… Ruth First, 2 May, 2012. Photograph by Eli Weinberg UWC/Robben Island Mayibuye Archives. Image source During her time as a …
ArticleTimeline 20 years of Democracy 1994 to 2014
… rights in the interim constitution. 1997 1 January, Robben Island Museum is officially opened on 1997. Two years later … sites, namely: Fossil Hominid Sites…
America, Spanish conquest
… (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…
ArticleSS Clan Stuart
… was delivering a shipment of coal from St. Helena, an island on the west coast of Africa, to Wales. Another version …
ArticleTimeline of South African photographic books and exhibitions 1958 - 2003
… , South African Communist Party (SACP) activist and ex-Robben Island prisoner open the exhibition. Omar Badsha participates … Windhoek, Namibia . Jurgen…
ArticleThe Wragg Commission (1885-1887)
… earned £4 per month and even more as cooks. On Salisbury Island, in Durban Bay, there was a thriving fish industry …
ArticleThe Early History of Rugby in South Africa
… The group's first president Dennis Brutus was jailed on Robben Island and several of its subsequent leaders were either …
Biography of Lionel Ngakane by Rod Reyna
… brother, Pascal, had just been sentenced to three years on Robben Island. [x] He feared the same for himself, and he wanted to …
Zarina Maharaj Biography by Sarah Rahimi
… sabotage and was sentenced to 12 years in imprisonment on Robben Island with Nelson Mandela and other significant political …
Vasco da Gama’s Voyage of ‘Discovery’ 1497
… da Boa Gente ('land of the good people'). At Mozambique Island, they forcefully engaged two Arab pilots and when the …
ArticleAreas indentured Indians came from
… other states like Mysore as well as Mauritius and Reunion Island (probably those who already served indenture there). …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Glossary
Terms You Need to Know: Christopher Columbus arriving in the America. Image Source Abolition: The ending of a law, a system or an institution. During…
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 …
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…