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Robben Island

Author : Charlene Smith
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 1920545794
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (25 download)

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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

Author : Fran Lisa Buntman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521007825
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (78 download)

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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

Robben Island Rainbow Dreams

Author : Neo Lekgotla laga Ramoupi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781928246299
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book Robben Island Rainbow Dreams written by Neo Lekgotla laga Ramoupi and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Robben Island Shakespeare

Author : Matthew Hahn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474283888
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book The Robben Island Shakespeare written by Matthew Hahn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Apartheid years in South Africa, a copy of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare was smuggled around the prison on Robben Island. The book's significance resides in the fact that the book's owner, Sonny Venkatratham, passed it to a number of his fellow political prisoners in the single cells, including Nelson Mandela, asking them to mark their favourite passages with a signature and date. Informally known as "the Robben Island Bible", numerous prisoners selected the speeches that meant the most to them and their experience as political prisoners. In 2008 and 2010, playwright and scholar Matthew Hahn conducted interviews with eight former political prisoners in South Africa. Offering a vivid and startling account of the experience of these political prisoners during Apartheid, this extraordinary verbatim play weaves Shakespeare's words together with first-hand accounts from these men. They offer their reflections on their time as Liberation activists and, twenty years later, on the costs, consequences and whether or not it was all worth it. The play is published alongside a preface by Sonny Venkatrathnam and an introduction by South African actor, director , playwright and cultural activist John Kani.

Robben Island

Author : Barbara Hutton
Publisher : Pearson South Africa
ISBN 13 : 9780868774176
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (741 download)

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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.

Robben Island to Wall Street

Author : Gaby Magomola
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781868885701
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book Robben Island to Wall Street written by Gaby Magomola and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes bibliographical references (p. 303) and index.

The Island

Author : Harriet Deacon
Publisher : New Africa Books
ISBN 13 : 9780864862990
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (629 download)

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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.

Long Walk to Freedom

Author : Nelson Mandela
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 9780759521049
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Long Walk to Freedom written by Nelson Mandela and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2008-03-11 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book that inspired the major new motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa's antiapartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule. He is revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality. LONG WALK TO FREEDOM is his moving and exhilarating autobiography, destined to take its place among the finest memoirs of history's greatest figures. Here for the first time, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela tells the extraordinary story of his life--an epic of struggle, setback, renewed hope, and ultimate triumph.

Voices from Robben Island

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Voices from Robben Island written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Reading Revolution

Author : Ashwin Desai
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781608462728
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book Reading Revolution written by Ashwin Desai and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's work gives hope and inspiration to the political prisoners held on apartheid South Africa's infamous Robben Island.

Hamlet's Dreams

Author : David Schalkwyk
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441183744
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Hamlet's Dreams written by David Schalkwyk and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hamlet's Dreams brings together the Robben Island Prison of Nelson Mandela and the prison that is Denmark for Shakespeare's Hamlet. David Shalkwyk uses the circulation of the so-called 'Robben Island Shakespeare', a copy of the Alexander edition of the Complete Works that was secretly circulated, annotated and signed by a group of Robben Island political prisoner in the 1970s (including Nelson Mandela), to examine the representation and experience of imprisonment in South African prison memoirs and Shakespeare's Hamlet. The book looks at the ways in which oppressive spaces or circumstances restrict the ways in which personal identity can be formed or formulated in relation to others. The 'bad dreams' that keep Hamlet from considering himself the 'king of infinite space' are, it argues, the need for other people that becomes especially evident in situations of real or psychological imprisonment.

Krotoa-Eva

Author : Trudie Bloem
Publisher : Kwela Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Krotoa-Eva written by Trudie Bloem and published by Kwela Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the politically charged atmosphere of the Cape in the mid-seventeenth century, Krotoa-Eva: The Woman from Robben Island is an exploration of identity, power and how individuals react to the clash of cultures. This biographical novel focuses on the vivid and memorable character of Krotoa-Eva; it also takes us into the hearts and minds of the women and men at the Cape at the time of the Dutch East India Company: the politicians and farmers, the military men and adventurers, and the chiefs, healers and cattle-traders. A deeply moving and yet highly informative book. Also timely, touching as it does on the search for a truly South African identity

Letters from Robben Island

Author : Robert D. Vassen
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1628950919
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book Letters from Robben Island written by Robert D. Vassen and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 1999-08-31 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late one night in July, 1963, a South African police unit surrounded the African National Congress headquarters in Rivonia and arrested a group of Movement leaders gathered inside. Eventually eight of them, including Nelson Mandela, who was already serving a sentence, Walter Sisulu, Dennis Goldberg, Govan Mbeki, Raymond Mhlaba, Elias Motsoledi, Andrew Mangeni, and Ahmed Kathrada, were convicted of sabotage and, on June 12, 1964, sentenced to life in prison. Soon, these men became widely known as the "Rivonia Trialists." Despite their imprisonment, the Trialists played active roles in the struggle against South Africa's racist regime. Instead of being forgotten, as apartheid officials had hoped, they became enduring symbols in a struggle against injustice and racism. Kathrada and his colleagues were classified as high security prisoners, segregated from others and closely watched. Every activity was regulated and monitored. Among the many indignities visited upon them, the prisoners were prohibited from keeping copies of incoming and outgoing correspondence. Kathrada, or "Kathy" as he is known, successfully hid both. Letters From Robben Island contains a selection of 86 of the more than 900 pieces of correspondence Ahmed Kathrada wrote during his 26 years on Robben Island and at Pollsmoor Prison. Some were smuggled out by friends; others were written in code to hide meaning and content from prison censors. These are among his most poignant, touching, and eloquent communications. They are testimonies to Kathrada, his colleagues, and to their commitment to obtaining human dignity and freedom for all South Africans.

More Than Just a Game

Author : Chuck Korr
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429922761
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book More Than Just a Game written by Chuck Korr and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timed perfectly for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, Chuck Korr and Marvin Close's More Than Just a Game tells the timeless true story of how political prisoners under apartheid found hope and dignity through soccer. In the hell that was Robben Island, inmates united courageously in an act of protest. Beginning in 1964, they requested the right to play soccer during their exercise periods. Denied repeatedly, they risked beatings and food deprivation by repeating their request for three years. Finally granted this right, the prisoners banded together to form a multi-tiered, pro-level league that ran for more than two decades and served as an impassioned symbol of resistance against apartheid. Former Robben Island inmate Nelson Mandela noted in the documentary FIFA: 90 Minutes for Mandela, "Soccer is more than just a game.... The energy, passion, and dedication this game created made us feel alive and triumphant despite the situation we found ourselves in."

The True History of Robben Island Must be Preserved

Author : S. E. M. Pheko
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The True History of Robben Island Must be Preserved written by S. E. M. Pheko and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Surviving in the Apartheid Prison: Robben Island

Author : Sedick Isaacs
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1453538070
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (535 download)

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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.

Reflections in Prison

Author : Mac Maharaj
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 1770201319
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Reflections in Prison written by Mac Maharaj and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2010-11-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.