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… Achmad Cassiem was born 12th of December in 1945 and grew up in an Islamic environment. He became politicised in the … the Sabotage Act . Cassiem was sentenced to 5 years in prison, while Isaacs was sentenced to 12 years. He was taken … the appalling conditions on the Island by smuggling out letters to Amnesty International and the International Red …

… Sedick Isaacs was born in 1939 and grew up in the Bo-Kaap, Cape Town , Western Province (now Western … Upon arrival on the Island, he was placed in Category D (a prison ranking with very little privileges) and was Prisoner … he was officially ‘charged’  for writing unauthorised letters (related to the hunger strike), the prison …

… for the people in the South African ‘homelands’ and the “letters, cards, parcels” campaign). So often people would ask … for the policemen present to realize that I was taking it up for the boy but finally the one who did the ‘interview’ … I was told in no uncertain manner that I was heading for prison and my husband, being foreign, for deportation, and …

… Graham, as well as a twin sister named Jennifer. She grew up in a sheltered home, but her interest in politics first … they continued communicating with each other through letters, and at one point, during the trial, Bram Fischer and … wife, Molly Fischer , smuggled their letters in and out of prison. However, Neame was herself detained shortly …

… African men of his generation, Mkhize would have grown up in a society already defined by racial segregation and the … control movement but to provide a steady supply of cheap prison labour and to maintain the fiction that African people … maintained his dignity and connections with his family.   Letters from Prison While awaiting execution, Mkhize wrote …

… in his own country.[4] He later wrote that he had "grown up a 'normal' complacent white South African" who … arrested doing similar work in Cape Town and were given prison sentences.[13] Undeterred, Jenkin continued the work … , communicated with comrades in the ANC through coded letters sent to Baruch Hirson in London. Hirson then …

… a Zulu-speaking mother and a Coloured father. Robert grew up in Wentworth, a suburb 11km from the city centre of the … Rev. Clive McBride. The second book Soledad Brothers - the prison letters of George Jackson, about an African-American …

… Democratic Youth in absentia, a post he was unable to take up due to restrictions placed on him by the … section, known as B Section, of the Maximum Security Prison. His prisoner number was 468/64. This was a section … Business and Economics, October 2003 Doctorate of Humane Letters: University of Missouri, January 2004 Voted 46th in …

… was born on a farm near Adelaide, Eastern Cape and grew up in Port Elizabeth . During high school, teachers … anyone who had problems and was regularly asked to write letters. After a report by journalist Gideon Khumalo on the … were sentenced to death while the rest were given lengthy prison sentences. Mati was given 10 years and a few days …

… for political activities in 1985 at Sun City (Diepkloof Prison, Johannesburg). On 17 November 1989, prompted by the … F W de Klerk  responded to public outcry by setting up the Harms Commission of Inquiry on 5 March 1990. Coetzee … booby-trapped headphones, turned on the tape and was blown up instantly in February 1991.  The  African National …

… Her mother, Amina, was also from India. Growing up, Mayat and her siblings’ lives revolved around their … in the wee hours when Moosa 'Mosie' Moolla escaped from prison in 1963. Fortunately, they were the only ones at … between Mayat and Kathrada, during which seventy-five letters were exchanged between the two. The letters, which …

… at least once and never matriculated ”” Sabata faced up to his regent and guardian (Chief Dabulamanzi Dalindyebo) … while Sabata was told that any further "impertinent letters" would result in his deposition. Nkosiyane and other … traditional terms, would accord him due respect (later, in prison, he wrote to Kaiser that their common ancestors had …

… born in East London and was one of six children. She grew-up in a white middle-class English-speaking South African … On 6 November 1986 she was sentenced to 25 years in prison, five years for the 1981 arson attacks and 20 years … of tender rigging, corruption and nepotism, in anonymous letters that were sent to the Public Service Commission …

… In 1974, he formed part of the group which set up the Johannesburg-based  Industrial Aid Society  (IAS). … Miriam Sithole and Linda Jiba. Mfeti was released from prison on 17 May 1977. Upon his release, he was placed under …

… of Paul Robeson, the Afro-American singer-actor. Brought up in Mentone, the modest home just upstream from Port Alfred … continued until the age of 82. She typed Wal’s many letters to the Guardian and Tribune newspapers editing these … defiance campaign. Isolated on her own in a large women’s prison, with warders creepily leering at her while she …

… white community for the democratic movement was in setting up the Million Signatures Campaign in 1984. Over 1 000 … to Port Elizabeth and was held in the North End Prison there. She was held in solitary confinement for over … to travel to Port Elizabeth regularly. She was allowed no letters other than those from her family. During her …

… the authorities had been informed and arrested them up at a road block (Carlin n.d.; Drew 2015:38). Solomon and … revolution, guerrilla warfare and sabotage and given prison sentences ranging from five to ten years. Solomon was … in isiXhosa phonetically so that they could read their own letters. Although Solomon was in the general section he was …

… in courts and supported families of friends. She wrote letters and articles for the media. She even organised for … than pay a fine, she served a short sentence in Pollsmoor Prison. Subsequently, her conviction was overturned in a … a major back surgery. As result she was forced to give up full-time involvement in a lot of the work that she had …

… (UDW) upon his return to the country. He instead took up a position as a research officer at the Institute of Race … American press. Reddy spent almost six months in Modderbee Prison in Benoni, Transvaal (now Gauteng) under the new … white English-speaking listeners, with hundreds of angry letters and columns featured in the English press. Reddy was …

… routes, identifying suitable places for the setting up of dead letter boxes (DLBs) inside South Africa, arms … authorities in early 1982. He was sentenced to a six month prison term in Botswana for illegal weapons transportation. …

… militant organisations. Both Meer and Singh would serve prison terms during the 1946 Indian Passive Resistance … laws that the Nationalist Party were drawing up to give effect to the new policy apartheid. The lobbying … reclassified as an “A” group prisoner allowing him three letters and two non contact visits every six months. Between …

… in Orlando West, Johannesburg during World War II. He grew up in the township, but due to his mother’s bad health was … entire student body. After a month, the university sent letters to students telling them to re-register. The … other Black Consciousness organisations were banned. From prison Mokoena wrote to Lybon Mabaso that ‘Your silence is …

… came about that I, amongst all the Afrikaners that I grew up with or knew, as a young man in the 1960s and early 1970s, … a conversation with one of them, asking him what he was in prison for. He was quite friendly and told me that he was … trained in routine administrative tasks, such as preparing letters acknowledging incoming correspondence. Cyril and I …

… of Xhosa society and the theft of the land, Isaac grew up to become a prominent African elite in the Eastern Cape. … and the merits of Xhosa custom. He wrote in the form of letters, announcements, articles, reports and lectures in … writing in isiXhosa. [59] During his time in Tokai Convict Prison, Isaac wrote six poems; the earliest isiXhosa prison …

… school’s routine was rigid and strict; pupils were woken up at 4am to bath and clean their dormitories and they would … Image source Walter Albertina celebrate his release from prison in Soweto in 1989. Image source The Defiance Campaign … were confirmed communists. In a back and forth exchange of letters between Albertina, the Ministry of Justice and the …

… having a broad yellow streak as part of his political make-up; and of describing Parliament as “a pack of Neo-Nazis”. … found guilty and sentenced to a hefty fine and a suspended prison sentence. Later that year his citizenship was … both he and his wife. Telephone death threats, poison-pen letters and smear campaigns became a regular feature of their …

… based on their own financial ability, sometimes seeing up to 100 patients a day. Asvat soon became well-known … with poverty. He published articles and wrote open letters to newspapers protesting the SACU-associated … ANC hero Walter Sisulu, had just been released from prison when Asvat offered her a job working as a nurse in his …

… sense of the oppression they were suffering under. He took up the issue of Indians in regard to first-class travel in … arranging meetings with politicians and addressing letters to newspapers. He also campaigned in India and made … the interest of one's own country and religion".Before the prison term was over  General Jan Smuts  sent him an emissary …

… members and their “courage and self-sacrifice” in standing up to tyranny (Scott, 1958). Though he made several … and eventual radical, Trevor Huddleston . In a series of letters, they clashed over the Church’s, and by extension … were often beaten and at night were locked into small prison like compounds. When the Rand Daily Mail published his …

… for sedition and given a three year sentence in Fort James prison in Accra. The CPP proceeded to contest legislative … in Ghana spearheaded by Nkrumah. The organisation was set up to form a political instrument, steered by African states, … in the book “Kwame Nkrumah. The Conakry Years.His Life and Letters” (Milne, 1990), comprised of vigorous writing, theory …