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Author : Sedick Isaacs
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781453538074
Sedick Isaacs was a prisoner of conscience on Robben Island where Nelson Mandela spent m18 years. This is another perspective of another section of the prison through the eyes of a scientist.
Author : Sedick Isaacs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1453538062
Sedick Isaacs was a prisoner of conscience on Robben Island where Nelson Mandela spent m18 years. This is another perspective of another section of the prison through the eyes of a scientist.
Author : Fran Lisa Buntman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0521007828
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Author : Charlene Smith
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781920545796
Robben Island – best known as the place where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for eighteen years – has been a place of harshness and brutality; its history steeped in the suffering of those banished there. Yet it has also become a universal symbol of hope, forgiveness, and triumph. With a storyteller’s sensibility, combined with rigorous research, Charlene Smith charts the evolution of the Island’s political and social history, from mail station, place of exile, and military defence post to maximum security prison and World Heritage Site. Fully revised, this new edition of Robben Island provides absorbing accounts of daring escapes, maritime disasters, lepers ostracized from mainland society, the fates of the great Xhosa chiefs of the nineteenth century, and the unique bonds of friendship and compassion forged among the political prisoners confined on the Island during the apartheid era. Today Robben Island is recognised for both its environmental riches and its cultural significance. More than just a geographical location or a tourist attraction, it is an enduring tribute to the resilience` of the human spirit. Sobering and uplifting, Robben Island is an essential read for anyone interested in South Africa’s turbulent journey to democracy and the people who made it possible.
Author : Mac Maharaj
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : African National Congress
ISBN : 1868723747
Author : Indres Naidoo
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780143529361
The island starts slowly moving back; the reverberations in the boat increase; the engine noise gets louder, and we feel the prison dock being torn from us. We are standing, silent, each at his own porthole, having our last look at what has been our home for ten years. There is a strange optical effect: the Island seems to get bigger as we get further from it. First we see only the little dock, then the rocks and bushes at either side and, finally, the whole expanding coastline, a complete island; a green and picturesque stretch of land in the ocean, the harsh monotony of its internal life totally hidden by its outer physical beauty ... Goodbye, Robben Island, may we never see you again, may all who live on your be liberated, may you go to hell, may you sink into the sea and become part of the bitter memories of the past, our past, of the past of apartheid. In 2001, Island in Chains was the runner-up for the prestigious Alan Paton Non-Fiction Prize.
Author : Barbara Hutton
Publisher : Pearson South Africa
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Apartheid
ISBN : 0868774170
This text tells the story of Robben Island. For more than four centuries it has been a place of banishment, exile and imprisonment but, since the 1960s, it has become an international symbol of the brutality of apartheid on one hand and of human dignity on the other.
Author : Harriet Deacon
Publisher : New Africa Books
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0864862997
Robben Island is a low-lying outcrop of rock and sand guarding the entrance to South Africa's Table Bay. Although it is just a few kilometres long and a barely swimmable distance from Cape Town, it may well be the most significant historical site in South Africa today.
Author : Govan Mbeki
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041136255
South Africa has jailed so many gifted men and women that there already exists a sizeable body of prison writing The essays by Govan Mbeki which comprise this book add to this distinguished list. Yet they differ in important respects from all others: they were written, circulated and preserved in prison. They were never intended for publication but to be read by other prisoners; their aim is not to share an experience but to educate politically. They are remarkable documents. They offer historians and political scientists valuable raw material for any study of the ANC-SACP alliance. They provide activists with a distillation of practical lessons about political organisation, learned in the most testing conditions. They include extended historical, political and economic analyses that must be read alongside Mbeki's other writings in any assessment of the intellectual history of the South African left. And they are pages in a truly international literature a record throughout the ages of the creativity and indomitability of people imprisoned for their beliefs. These prison essays mark a victory in the continuing contest between the pen and the sword. "Professor Colin Bundy in his introduction""
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Correctional personnel
ISBN : UOM:39015034285471
Om fangeøen Robben Island ud for Cape Town i Sydafrika og nogle af dens politiske fanger, bl.a. Nelson Mandela og Sfiso Buthelezi, og deres fangevogtere
Author : Christo Brand
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781782198123
Christo Brand was a South African farm boy, born into the Afrikaans culture which had created apartheid, a racial system designed to persecute black people while claiming superiority for white people. Nelson Mandela, the black son of a tribal chief, also raised in a rural village, trained as a lawyer to take up the fight against apartheid on behalf of a whole nation. Their opposing worlds collided when Christo, a raw recruit from the country's prison service, was sent to Robben Island to guard the notoriously dangerous terrorists; Mandela was their undisputed leader.The two of them, a boy of 19 and a long-suffering freedom fighter then aged 60, should have become bitter enemies. Instead they formed an extraordinary friendship through small human kindnesses; Christo, a gentle young man who valued ordinary decency and courtesy, struck a chord with the wise and resilient freedom fighter - a man who was prepared to die if necessary to liberate his people.As an African tribesman family was a priority for Mandela and he knew that his life imprisonment meant that he might never be able to live with them again. When his mother died he was refused permission to go to her funeral - as the eldest son, Mandela held a great responsibility towards her, and he wept with shame and despair. Christo was witness to that despair many times during his years as Mandela's personal prison warder. He knew the heartbreak he suffered at never being able to see his children. So, when Winnie secretly brought their tiny granddaughter to Robben Island it was Christo who risked his own freedom to put the baby in Mandela's arms for a few moments.Their friendship was sealed by many such shared moments; sometimes merely a gesture or a smile, at other times an act of generosity which could have cost Christo his job. This bond of trust endured between the two men long after Mandela was freed. As President of South Africa he invited Christo into his home, advised his son Riaan on his career and gave Christo a job in the Constitutional Assembly in Parliament, drawing up the country's new laws. Shortly before passing away he called for Christo again for the final time - to say goodbye. In this book Christo tells, for the first time, the incredible and moving story of their unlikely friendship.
Author : S. E. M. Pheko
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015056244794
Author : Mac Maharaj
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781770201316
In 1976, when he was imprisoned on Robben Island, Nelson Mandela secretly wrote the bulk of his autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom. The manuscript was to be smuggled out by fellow prisoner Mac Maharaj, on his release later that year. Maharaj also urged Mandela and other political prisoners to write essays on southern Africa’s political future. These were smuggled out with Mandela’s autobiography, and are now published for the first time, 25 years later, in Reflections in Prison. This collection of essays provides a unique ‘snapshot’ of the thinking of Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki, Ahmed Kathrada and other leaders of the anti-apartheid struggle on the eve of the 1976 Soweto Uprising. It gives an insight into their philosophies, strategies and hopes, as they debate diversity and unity, violent and non-violent forms of struggle, and non-racism in the context of different interpretations of African nationalism. Each essay is preceded by a short biography of the author, a description of his life in prison, and a pencil sketch by a leading black South African artist. The collection begins with a foreword by Desmond Tutu and a contextualising introduction by Mac Maharaj. These essays are far more than historical artefacts. They reveal the thinking that contributed to the South African ‘miracle’ and address issues that remain burningly relevant today.
Author : Ashwin Desai
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Apartheid
ISBN : 1868886832
The prison authorities on South Africa's Robben Island displayed a remarkable obsession with censoring the news that prisoners could receive from the outside world. Yet, as the pages of this book reveal, political prisoners managed to escape these constraints through literature, travelling to the sites of contemporary revolutionary struggles and to the frontlines of the French and Bolshevik revolutions. Tolstoy jostled with Trotsky, while Shakespeare 'winged' his way over the walls of the single and communal cells. As the prisoners brought their experiences to bear on the text, the works of Shakespeare were mined for their anti-colonial and anti-apartheid inspirations, as much as for the power and beauty of their words. The texts also left their mark on the consciousness and memories of liberation fighters, with many prisoners still reciting lines from Shakespeare's plays and sonnets some three decades after their release. Through the memories and biographical accounts written by former political inmates, the book evocatively brings to life the voices of prisoners who furtively copied books at night before they were snatched back by the prison guards. Reading Revolution is about how words can inspire the human spirit, light up the intellect, and free the reader to travel the world. But, this is not a book simply about the past. By opening the all-too-quickly-forgotten pages of history, the book seeks to ignite once more, a reading revolution, to stir up the imagination in a South Africa whose democratic transition seeks to consolidate power from above, while being increasingly contested by insurgent protest from below.
Author : Raymond Suttner
Publisher : Ocean Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1876175257
After Raymond Suttner's arrest in 1975, he was subjected to torture, solitary confinement and long periods in jail. This book includes letters smuggled out of jail and provides insights into the psychological effects of confinement.
