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… incarcerated for three months. On her first night in the prison she attempted suicide again. Slowly lifting the white … I wanted to get to my heart.” Realising her desperation, prison authorities, African embassies and other liberation …

… Ngoyi and Helen Joseph. We were arrested and taken to No 4 prison. Nelson Mandela was our legal representative. We were … swoop (sic) the whole country. I was taken again to No 4 prison. In 1964 I was put under the banning order (sic) for …

… Ken Saro-Wiwa, that led to the death of Moshood Abiola in prison, to shut down the press and to pursue the human rights … Ken Saro-Wiwa, that led to the death of Moshood Abiola in prison, to shut down the press and to pursue the human rights …

… Islanders, for whom punishment extended beyond the prison cells, with not a day of remission of their sentences. … Nelson Mandela in exile for the first time. He had been in prison since 1962. His "NO EASY WALK TO FREEDOM" was their …

… description, because all we could do was to improve the prison rations with what we bought from the canteen. … came: 1.200 detainees were to be released; on 1 July the prison matron told us, "everyone is going home except …

… Similarly, after Ottilie’s inhumane treatment in a Zambian prison with her baby son, Rudi, during the reign of a black …

… the Soweto uprisings. It was smuggled out of Robben Island prison under very difficult conditions and has taken over two …

… in the struggles here on Robben Island and in the greater prison that was Apartheid South Africa. May this monument and …

… a free South Africa coming true. The people had opened the prison doors and we knew that it would not be long before we …

… a free South Africa coming true. The people had opened the prison doors and we knew that it would not be long before we …

… including his flogging, horrific even by South African prison standards. In The New Radicals, I recalled how the …

… were dragged from their beds at 6 a.m. and clapped into prison and many male German Jews have been sent to …

… and there would be more to come - extolled the virtues of prison life, a life of poverty, and urged readers not to …

… and his co-accused elected to go into exile rather than prison. They left and went to Zeerust and then literally …

… were tried for treason, found guilty and sentenced to prison terms on St Helena. In 1894 Dinuzulu was pardoned and …

… a trial-within-a-trial in Pretoria High Court, claiming prison authorities were behind the disappearance of vital …

… Industrial and Commercial Union (ICU) official is sent to prison for stealing union money. Rural support of the …

… 12 and 18 months of hard labour. Mgijima was released from prison in 1924 and died some years later, on 5 March 1929. …

… time and stayed three months. He also viewed the isolated prison of Robben Island from the vantage point of Table …

… taken by the police and detained, there were no records or prison phone calls to their families. So in order to help the …

… justness of the black struggle for freedom", and sent from prison where he was in solitary confinement, Gomas appealed … , but as all books are confiscated by the Prison, I do not like to lose such a valuable copy." He and the others found that in prison "our wits become exceptionally sensitive and …

… their location compounds as ‘suggesting either slavery or prison life’. He stressed the need for improved wages, an end …

… J.N. Singh and Zainab Asvat gave up their studies to go to prison under the Dadoo-Naicker leadership" . — The Leader, … during the war. Pandit Nehru, soon after release from prison in 1945, exhorted the Indians in South Africa to … the Indian Congresses. Dr Dadoo and Dr Naicker came out of prison in July and called for a united front against fascism. …

… Resistance Movement from the beginning, has been sent to prison for three months on a charge of trespass at the Gale … Resisters were being deliberately more harshly treated by prison officials. The Congress also led evidence before the Penal and Prison Reform Commission to show the harsh treatment that was …

… 11 February, Mandela was released from Victor Verster Prison.He addresses a crowd of approximately 50 000 people … on 19 February 1990, 8 days after he was released from prison. It was this passport (with his second name …

… Nxumalo's first-hand report on the miserable conditions in prison and the abuse by the wardens. Because of the … Manilal Gandhi's scathing article about his experience in prison, were successfully countered. [32] Investigative …

… complaining to the government that with union leaders in prison they were forced to negotiate with ‘mobs’. Cosatu held … by October all the Rivonia Trialists were released from prison, except Nelson Mandela , who was released on 11 …