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… Simon’s Town naval base Dieter Gerhard is released from prison where he has been serving a life sentenc …

… Two life sentences plus sixty-three years in prison are inflicted on Ferdi Barnard, former member of the …

… a fine of R3-million and is given a four-year suspended prison term after pleading guilty in a Cape Town c …

… Prison authorities release thirty-four of the forty-two …

… A prisoner of Pretoria’s C-Max prison manages to obtain a gun, which he uses to shoot dead …

… student, Carl Niehaus, is sentenced to fifteen years in prison for high treason in the Rand Supreme Court. Hi …

… Lewis, strikers during the revolt, are hung in the Central Prison in Pretori …

… Afrikaans poet, Breyten Breytenbach, is released from prison after serving seven of the nine years to which he was …

… Services says South Africa has one of the highest prison popula …

… Vorster Square for nine months without trial. While in prison, he continued creating art, using his finger nails, tea leaves and egg shells to draw on the prison walls. Once released, nine months later, he struggled to readjust to life outside of prison, suffering from alcoholism and periodic homelessness. …

… time working clandestinely in underground structures or in prison, while she held down two and sometimes even three jobs … ends meet. She waited patiently while he completed his prison sentence, but on his release in February 1984, after … and lived together and shared time out of the shadow of prison and detention. Elsie Nair passed away on27 January …

… six months in solitary confinement at Pretoria Central Prison. After her release from prison in 1982, she defied advice to live abroad and instead … me all my Life, about her experiences in Pretoria Central Prison, Jeppe police station and her interrogation at John …

… a Detainees’ Parents’ Support Group, visiting detainees in prison, organising representation, dispensing medical … the first public protest march from Valencia to Nelspruit Prison in 1980s. The march saw trade unionists, UDF activists …

… popular uprising, he spent ten years on Robben Island. In prison, he completed high school by into a principal adherent … exile, then headed by Nyati Pokela whom Keke had known in prison. Keke was appointed in 1981 to the PAC's central …

… wife, Molly Fischer , smuggled their letters in and out of prison. However, Neame was herself detained shortly … and while waiting to be transferred to a long-term prison, Neame was taken to the North End Prison in Port Elizabeth (now Gqeberha), Eastern Cape …

… to South Africa where he was taken to Pretoria Central Prison and spent well over a year awaiting trial. He stood … 1969 and on 26 March 1969 he was sentenced to 18 years in prison.  After spending about 10 months in Pretoria Central Prison, he was transported to Robben Island where he served …

… emergency in the mid-'80s, he was imprisoned in St Albans Prison in Port Elizabeth for three years. Many of his fellow … the history of the ANC and gave regular history lessons in prison. In 1983 Fazzie was released from Robben Island and … for three months in Port Elizabeth's notorious St.Alban's Prison. In the early 1986 he was banned for five years,the …

… imprisonment. He obtained his Matriculation certificate in prison and went on to graduate with a BA and a BCom degree. … all, why place such weight on an undertaking given in prison? Besides, it may well be possible to formulate the … in such a way that it may suffice to get him out of prison, without compromising his principles. In no way did …

… Task Force led by Tefu planned to storm the Baviaanspoort Prison to release PAC members who were held in detention. The … awaiting trial. On 22 June he was sentenced to life in prison and sent to serve his sentence on Robben Island. Tefu … was subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment meted by prison warders particularly in the early 1960s.  He was …

… result of her torture.  She was then transferred to Bethal prison and then to Middleburg Prison in the Eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga ) Following … once more for six months. Matshoba was released from prison but placed under house arrest and later banned for …

… no remission from the State. Following his release from prison, Pillay was banned, in terms of the Suppression of … Robben Island says in his book, Surviving in the Apartheid Prison: Robben Island: Flash Backs of an earlier life: Siva … S. (2010).   Surviving in the Apartheid Prison: Robben Island: Flash Backs of an earlier life . …

… He was employed at several jobs and spent some years in prison until around 1976, when he felt called to become a … National Congress and release of Nelson Mandela from prison. He created three sculptures based on these dreams, …

… and charged with high treason. After being held in prison for two weeks she was finally acquitted from the … detained for three and half months at  Pretoria Central Prison  and in 1962 placed under house arrest with her …

… after being detained on 18 Novemver 1966 at the Leeuwkop prison under the 180-day clause.The official cause of death …

… the 1990s. He won the 2003 Olive Schreiner Prize for his prison memoir Bandiet Out of Jail . While in prison, he secretly recorded his experiences and those of his …

… the 156 accused were separated into four groups by the prison authorities, with Gawe allocated to the cell occupied … he was detained without charge in an East London prison alongside Matthews between April and August1960.In the …

… ,  Mosiua Lekota  and  Popo Molefe . During his time in prison he obtained a Diploma in Electrical Engineering from … Chabane also developed his interest in music while in prison, where he learnt music theory and how to play the …

… a hunger strike for eight days. She was only released from prison on 23 July 1960. Two years after her release from prison, Barenblatt was banned for five years on 31 July 1962. …

… an Osama bin Laden follower, is sentenced to life in prison without parole in the 1998 bombing …

… rest of 1978 in detention without trial at Kamiti Maximum Prison. wa Thiong’o chose to write in the Kikuyu language … He lost his job at the university and upon release from prison he struggled to get any employment in the country. In … to Britain to promote the novel that he wrote while in prison, Caitani Mutharabaine, which was later translated into …