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… without a passport.  He was sentenced to ten years in prison and spent two years at Leeukop Prison, and eight years on Robben Island. Whilst in prison he mentored many fellow political prisoners in …

… eventually arrested, tried and sentenced to 18 months in prison. During the trial, he pleaded not guilty on grounds of him being a conscientious objector. While in prison, Steele met Christians from other denominations and, … and came to respect his teachings. After his release from prison, Steele travelled the world, learning and seeking a …

… was found guilty of treason and sentenced to 10 years in prison on 21 October 1982. This made her the first white … She was sent to serve her sentence at the Pretoria Central Prison. While in prison, Hogan assisted by human right lawyers and …

… imprisonment, and became the first woman to be held at Pollsmoor, but after an appeal in 1965, her sentence was …

… Indres and his colleagues were sentenced on 13 May 1963 to prison for ten years. About two hundred people waited outside … slogans. He was whipped and assaulted in Robben Island prison where he spent ten years. Because of the assaults he … release in May 1973, after ten years in Robben Island prison, Indres was served with stringent banning orders. He …

… along with Sipho Xulu and Andrew Zondo at Pretoria Central Prison. In 1984, Payi and Xulu, acted on the orders of a …

… labour while taking care of an infant in Pietermaritzburg prison. …

… She was then taken to the notorious John Vorster Square prison in Johannesburg, where she was interrogated for the … Barberton and Kroonstad Prisons, Desai was released from prison in 1978, then banned, and placed under house arrest …

… on 8 April 1963 for sabotage and sentenced to ten years in prison. He served his sentence on Robben Island and was …

… A handwritten letter in isiZulu on prison notepaper, sent from "V963 Petros M'Khize, Central Prison, Private Bag 45, Pretoria." It opens "Mama wami … to "Mrs Julia Mbele, 301 Zondi No. 2" and bears a Central Prison stamp. The full isiZulu text awaits translation. …

… when a common law prisoner leaked the information to the prison wardens. They raided the cells and discovered the key. … with him. Masemola was flown from Johannesburg (Leeukop Prison) to Victor Verster Prison in Cape Town to meet Mandela. Nothing has ever been …

… in Johannesburg. He was arrested and served 14 days in prison. On 28 December that year, he was charged with Gandhi … did the cooking for fellow prisoners in the Johannesburg prison. Gandhi hailed Thambi Naidoo as one of the most … burnt. Thambi Naidoo repeatedly defied the law and went to prison. While the campaign continued, Naidoo served ten terms …

… in the Rand Supreme Court to an effective ten years in prison for high treason and membership of the …

… Dinuzulu ka-Cetewayo, Zulu chief, released from prison by Gen. Louis Botha (who also saw to it that he …

… A prison warder, Jacques Horne, 31, on escort duty is shot dead …

… ANC, Olivia Forsyth, who was held prisoner at ANC Quatro prison camp for …

… the end of the year have been released from Robben Island prison, in …

… and comrades who were detained would also be at the prison, but when he got to the Fort, he quickly learnt that … daily newspaper or medical officers would insist that the prison authorities allow him time in the prison courtyard. Shirish remembered driving Joe Matthews – a …

… control movement but to provide a steady supply of cheap prison labour and to maintain the fiction that African people … prisoner number V963 and transferred to Pretoria Central Prison, approximately 60 kilometers north of Johannesburg. … 1990, over 2,500 people were hanged at Pretoria Central Prison, with a disproportionate number being Black political …

… Subsequently sentenced to two and a half years in prison. Banned after release. …

… in South Africa. They were hanged at the Pretoria Central Prison, Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 1 November 1963. …

… Council. He acted as Chairman when Dr. Dadoo was in prison or on missions abroad. He led a large batch of "United … to 30 days` hard labour. After release, he went to prison a second time. Almost every member of his family - he … of Gandhi and have suffered the rigours of South African prison life and they are continuing to make further …

… at a mass meeting to welcome him on his release from prison, he declared: " Our struggle has lit fire in the … to the fate of fascist Germany or Japan. " When he went to prison in the passive resistance campaign, his medical … almost every penny he had at the disposal of NIC. While in prison, he even arranged the sale of his car to raise money …

… had committed suicide on 9th October 1966 at the Pretoria prison after being detained on 30 August 1966. He had been …

… was held overnight in a dark filthy cell in Roeland Street Prison. The next day he was taken to Swartkop Aerodrome in … from Cape Town. He was then driven to Pretoria Central Prison where he was stripped naked and searched and then … said this would prevent him from committing suicide in prison but he had no intention of committing suicide.   …

… we Sizwe  (MK).  Dlomo was sentenced to four years in prison which he served on Robben Island. While he was on the … of protest mounted by political prisoner against inhumane prison conditions. As a result, he was detained in solitary … of studies withdrawn. He smuggled a letter out of prison through some of the prisoners who were being released …

… A handwritten letter in isiZulu on prison notepaper, sent from "V963 Petros M. Khize, Central Prison, Private Bag 45, Pretoria." It opens with the greeting … Jumaima Mbele, 301 Zondi No. 2" and carries a Central Prison stamp, the prisoner number V963 in red, and a …

… up, his frozen skin began to crack. He was then moved to prison in Pretoria. Sabotage charges against Nkadimeng were … He was convicted in May 1964, served his sentence at a prison in the Orange Free State and was released in 1966. … order, which remained in effect when he came out of prison. He was restricted to the area of Orlando West, …

… months with hard labour. Three of her brothers went to prison during this Campaign. Mononmony went to prison twice during the Campaign  of Defiance against Unjust … believe I will live to see that day”. When Mandela was in prison and his wife, Winnie Mandela, was being harassed, Ama …