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Loading... 2 days ago · “Robben Island is the most notorious prison in the world,” said Lal. “It was a prison within a prison but the message of resistance still spread to the world. The prisoners reterritorialised Robben Island – it became a university – a site of learning and resistance. Ahmed Kathrada earned four degrees while incarcerated on Robben ...
22 hours ago · – Mcebisi Ndletyana is a professor of political science at the University of Johannesburg. He recently penned an opinion article that appeared on News24 on 25 September 2024. “In a world divided between the oppressed and the oppressor, few items rival the importance of Nelson Mandela’s Robben Island cell key. It was this key that […]
22 hours ago · Mandela served 27 years in prison, split between Robben Island, Pollsmoor Prison and Victor Verster Prison. Amid growing domestic and international pressure and fears of racial civil war, President F. W. de Klerk released him in 1990.
22 hours ago · This spirit of reconciliation is the true inheritance that Mandela left for us all—a heritage that transcends the dark history of apartheid and the years he spent incarcerated on Robben Island.
22 hours ago · John Maroo. Letsholo Edwin Makoti. Patrick Letlalo. Clayton Tsele. Ngqangula Mzondi Khatshwa. Balungile Shembe. Madoda Myoli. Sithembiso Stanford Madikizela. Ramaphosa said the country needed to ...
22 hours ago · Another prominent name is that of John Nyathi Pokela who was Chairman of the Pan Africanist Congress who spent more than a decade on Robben Island for his activities as a member of the Azanian People's Liberation Army, then known as Poqo. He is remembered for the vital role he played in forging unity within the PAC. He passed away in Harare in ...
22 hours ago · It is perhaps a sign of his esteemed place in the history of the liberation movement that his remains were exhumed still wearing the ANC scarf in which he was buried in Lusaka in 1978. John Nyathi Pokela was Chairman of the Pan Africanist Congress who spent more than a decade on Robben Island for his activities as a member of the Azanian People ...
