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Pretoria Central Political Prisoners
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ArchivePretoria Central Gaol, 1960
… Pretoria Central Gaol, 1960 …
From death row in Pretoria Central Prison, October 1964 [Extract]
… From death row in Pretoria Central Prison, October 1964 [Extract] …
EventFour political detainees escape from Pretoria Central prison in one of the most dramatic escapes in SA history
… Trial; and Charlie Jassat, escaped from the Johannesburg Central Police station after bribing a young warder on 11 … before the infamous Rivonia Trial was…
Leaders of the four ‘independent’ homelands meet central government representatives in Pretoria, chaired by President P.W. Both
… Leaders of the four ‘independent’ homelands meet central government representatives in Pretoria, chaired by President P.W. Both …
Alexandre Moumbaris, convicted under the Terrorism Act, who was serving a twelve-year sentence, escapes from Pretoria Central p
… Act, who was serving a twelve-year sentence, escapes from Pretoria Central p …
BiographyStephen Tefu
… to the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in Pretoria at a time when the party was at a low ebb. Shortly after joining, he became a member of the…
Two bomb blasts in central Pretoria injure three women. The bombs were placed under a car outside a police housing project. htt
… Two bomb blasts in central Pretoria injure three women. The bombs were placed …
Amos Ndwalane
… was due to be hanged after spending eight years in the Pretoria Central Prison for leading a mission that led to the death of … was scheduled to be hanged…
Clarence Lucky Payi
… September 1986, along with Sipho Xulu and Andrew Zondo at Pretoria Central Prison. In 1984, Payi and Xulu, acted on the orders …
ArchivePretoria Central Prison execution register entry and prison photograph of Petros Sipho Sibusiso Mkhize, recorded as "Mkhise P", File V963
… (numbered 134) from the execution register of the former Pretoria Central Prison. The upper portion is a tabular entry … (numbered 134) from the execution…
Emma Thandi Mashinini
… and spent the next six months in solitary confinement at Pretoria Central Prison. After her release from prison in 1982, she … have Followed me all my Life,…
BiographyMaqadaza Magushe
… of the Pan African Congress and Poqo . he was executed at Pretoria Central Prison on 30 May 1967 for the murder of Maurice …
Lennox Madikane
… for sabotage in South Africa. They were hanged at the Pretoria Central Prison, Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 1 November 1963. …
BiographyAbdul ‘Apamai’ Rahman Dawood
… by his father to live with relatives in Prinsloo Street, Pretoria. He was admitted to Pretoria Indian Boy's School where he did his education, but … white…
BiographyPetros Sipho Sibusiso Mkhize (Mkize)
… was assigned prisoner number V963 and transferred to Pretoria Central Prison, approximately 60 kilometers north of … Between 1960 and 1990, over 2,500 people…
BiographyKhuzwayo Joe Mlangeni
… with four others were the first to be executed at the Pretoria Central prison for political reasons. This followed a clash … was one of the first persons to…
BiographyMalesella Benjamin Moloise
… was executed by apartheid government on 18 October 1985 at Pretoria Central Prison for his supposed role in the 1982 murder of a …
BiographyCaesarina Kona Makhoere
… Caesarina Kona Makhoere was born near Pretoria in 1955. Her father was a policeman and her mother … She then spent two years in Kroonstad Prison, two years…
BiographyBishop Mmutlanyane Stanley Mogoba
… advised him to become a teacher. Consequently, he went to Pretoria Bantu Normal College at Vlakfontein where he … invited by the Presbyterian Church in…
BiographyBen Wa Mokoena Arnold
… Group). 1961: Queens Art Gallery, Johannesburg (group). Pretoria (Jacaranda Festival), 1963: Gallery 101. Lidchi An … Johannesburg (solo). 1979-80: SAAA…
Archive"Isikhumbuzo" (Memorial): Self-authored obituary by Petros Sipho Mkhize, dedicated to Getruth Ndlovu, written while awaiting execution, Pretoria Central Prison, circa 1967
… Sipho Sibusiso Mkhize in isiZulu while he was held at Pretoria Central Prison awaiting execution. He headed the document … to Getruth Ndlovu, written while…
BiographyWalter Sidney Felgate
… Walter Sidney Felgate was born on 19 November 1930 in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng). Felgate graduated from Pretoria Boys High School in 1949. He studied…
BiographyEsme Bodenstein
… as a physiotherapist. She was allowed to visit Goldberg in Pretoria Central Prison twice in 20 years before his release in 1985, …
BiographyJohnson Phillip Mlambo
… at Kilnerton. After completing his studies, he worked at Pretoria Pottery Cement in Jupiter in 1958 until his return … in prison. After being convicted, he…
BiographyVuyisile Mini
… area. Mini wrote: ”I am presently awaiting execution at Pretoria Central Gaol having been sentenced to death at the beginning … Wilson Khayinga and Zinakile…
BiographyAbdulhay Jassat
… and imprisoned at both Fort Prison in Johannesburg and Pretoria Central Prison for almost six months. In 1961 he joined the … the doctors told him that the…
BiographyMichael Gagashe Zondi
… (solo). DAM (Art SA Today). 1966 Venice, Italy (Biennale). Pretoria (Republic Festival Exhibition). 1974 UNISA (solo), 1975 Royal Museum for Central Africa,…
BiographyAaron Mosibudi Mangena
… education and Lethabo Primary School in Wallmansthal, near Pretoria in 1964. Subsequently, he attended Wallmansthal … due to his political activities. He…
BiographyMadimetja Lawrence Phokanoka
… was transported back to South Africa where he was taken to Pretoria Central Prison and spent well over a year awaiting trial. He … to 18 years in prison. …