Surviving in the Apartheid Prison: Robben Island

Surviving in the Apartheid Prison: Robben Island

Author: Sedick Isaacs

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2010-08-06

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 1453538070

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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.


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Download or read book Surviving in the Apartheid Prison: Robben Island written by Sedick Isaacs and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-08-06 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


Surviving in the Apartheid Prison

Surviving in the Apartheid Prison

Author: Sedick Isaacs

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781453538067

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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.


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Download or read book Surviving in the Apartheid Prison written by Sedick Isaacs and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


Robben Island

Robben Island

Author: Charlene Smith

Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa

Published: 2013-07-01

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1920545794

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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.


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Download or read book Robben Island written by Charlene Smith and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


Robben Island and Prisoner Resistance to Apartheid

Robben Island and Prisoner Resistance to Apartheid

Author: Fran Lisa Buntman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-10-27

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780521007825

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Table of contents


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Download or read book Robben Island and Prisoner Resistance to Apartheid written by Fran Lisa Buntman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-27 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents


Reflections in Prison

Reflections in Prison

Author: Mac Maharaj

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 9781868723744

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Island In Chains By Prisoner 885/63

Island In Chains By Prisoner 885/63

Author: Indres Naidoo

Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa

Published: 2012-11-01

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 0143529366

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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.


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Download or read book Island In Chains By Prisoner 885/63 written by Indres Naidoo and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


Robben Island

Robben Island

Author: Barbara Hutton

Publisher: Pearson South Africa

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 9780868774176

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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.


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Download or read book Robben Island written by Barbara Hutton and published by Pearson South Africa. This book was released on 1994 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


The Island

The Island

Author: Harriet Deacon

Publisher: New Africa Books

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9780864862990

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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.


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Download or read book The Island written by Harriet Deacon and published by New Africa Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


Inside Apartheid's Prison

Inside Apartheid's Prison

Author: Raymond Suttner

Publisher: Ocean Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9781876175252

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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.


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Download or read book Inside Apartheid's Prison written by Raymond Suttner and published by Ocean Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


Learning from Robben Island

Learning from Robben Island

Author: Govan Mbeki

Publisher: Ohio University Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13:

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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""


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Download or read book Learning from Robben Island written by Govan Mbeki and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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""